betsy miller dance projects
the american / woman project
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2025 COLLABORATIONS
SARAH LASS
Wyoming "I love female rage. I really believe in it as a kind of catalytic power, that when we have functional access to, can be really transformational. I think that comes from this kind of rub that I experienced between my socialization experience as a woman and contending with the ways in which that has been harmful... I think rage can be really clarifying. "
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CAT KAMRATH MONSON
Wyoming "Dance has given me so much strength..... Just explore it. See what happens.
You're really the only one that gets to determine what is and isn't successful." |
JULIE MARIE MUSKAT
Minnesota What are some words that you would use to describe yourself as a woman?
"I would say wrestling, … fighting… strong AND soft." What are some words that you would use to describe yourself as an American? "More shame than pride... I’m also an Israeli citizen, and I also feel an extreme amount of shame related to that. I want to say hope but it feels so thin right now. Right now, it also feels like I’m a second class citizen, non-human." |
2023-2024 COLLABORATIONS
"I think my ideal practice pairs challenge with a real radical sense of humanity and empathy- the same kind of themes that show up in how I value a class environment. I want to work real fucking hard but I don’t want to be afraid to go there and I think the best processes have that balance that say: “Let’s try to do this really hard fucking thing, but know that you are radically supported in whatever that outcome may be.”
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AJA PANDEY
Illinois "Just making eye contact with somebody while you’re creating movement or dancing with somebody, or even an audience member- to be able to share the same feeling without having to use words, is something that has stuck with me from the moment I performed live the first time….it’s a rush that I can never let go of."
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"I think what keeps me going is that I want to have a space for people who love the language of movement to come, and be together, and WORK."
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JOY DAVIS
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"There are other problems… white feminism cannot be the center anymore. AND... misogyny is still operating."
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"How I teach (my children) to question, and resist, and learn, and behave… that’s my role right now as woman/ mother. Especially because of where I live… I think it’s important not to run and away and leave. I think it’s important to stay.
And vote. And resist. And talk." |
MEREDITH BRUCH
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MARIN DAY
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LINDSEY JENNINGS
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2022 COLLABORATIONS
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ANI JAVIAN
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BETHANY PHILLIPP
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KOURA WRIGHT
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TIFFANY BIERLY
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SARA CAPLAN
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2020-2021 COLLABORATIONS
JENNIFER DECKERT
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ANN GLAVIANO
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KENDRA PORTIER
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2019 COLLABORATIONS
JAMIE ARNOLD
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LAQUIMAH VANDUNK
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NATALIE DESCH
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REBECCA STEINBERG
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PAULA MCARTHUR
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MEREDITH LYONS
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2018 COLLABORATIONS
SHURA BARYSHNIKOV
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RACHEL BOGGIA
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ALEXANDRA JAMES
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ALI KENNER BRODSKY
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KELLIE ANN LYNCH
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LIDA WINFIELD
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JESSIE STINNETT
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