DANCE | OHIO
Thu, Mar 15–Sat, Mar 17 at 8 pm
Sun, Mar 18 at 5 pm

Inspired by the writings of Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, and Gertrude Stein, In a Rhythm by Bebe Miller Company is a suite of new dance works that explores the syntax of movement. Using sound and text as underlying maps of events and situations, choreographer and artistic director Bebe Miller focuses on the subtle interactions of gesture, timing, focus, and dynamics that are uniquely human yet often illegible outside of recognizable contexts. In a Rhythm works to decipher the “unfamiliar” and pushes to cultivate a new sense of shared understanding for looking at the world around us.

"In a Rhythm was inspired by a coincidence of reading. I came across a text by Astrid Lorange, How Reading is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein. From her introduction: ‘My reading of Stein seeks to de-emphasize the question of meaning in order to consider other perceptual affects: the vague, often paradoxical, sometimes troubling, and endlessly variegated constructions that constitute experience.’ My first thought was, how choreographic! Around the same time, I read a harrowing short story by David Foster Wallace, Incarnations of Burned Children. Please find it and read it. He moves you through a devastating experience moment by moment, in time parallel to the most mundane. I continued with both writers, along with a re-entry into Toni Morrison’s continually inspiring telling-of-the-tales. Her writing has been a beacon for many of us, but it is her truth-telling in various interviews that is newly inspiring. To me, all three writers capture diverse cultural relevancies through how they structure language: their syntax, and their precise tone, brings meaning." — Bebe Miller