Patrice Miller
Director - Choreographer | Writer | Performance Artist
Patrice Miller an international, NYC-based director, choreographer, and performance artist. With work that embraces the temporal and physical challenges of live performance in a process that is centered on the use of the body in relationship to text and discourse, their portfolio is an aesthetic kaleidoscope that includes co-writing and directing This Joint is Jumpin’ which co-opened The Other Palace in London, directing NPR’s James Judd’s Funny Stories for a lengthy summer run at the Crown & Anchor, Provincetown, and creating and often performing In the Pines, which began at The Brick, developed at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and was featured at the AUSTRAL festival in Buenos Aires. A native denizen of mostly downtown NY theater, she directed Mad Jenny’s Love und Greed at Pangea, choreographed City of Glass at the New Ohio and Vaclav Havel’s The Pig … at 3LD amongst many other works at spaces including La MaMa, Theater Row, Dixon Place, HERE Arts, and a decade’s worth of work at The Brick in Brooklyn.
Their original installation creations include work for The Brooklyn Museum, Prelude at the CUNY Graduate Center, SUNY Stonybrook, Grace Exhibition Space, and NYC Fashionweek. As a performer, she has appeared at NYLA with Jody Oberfelder Projects, COIL for Steve Valk, Michael Klein, and the Martha Graham Company, Performa 11 with Public Movement, and the American/English language premiere of Richard Foreman’s George Bataille’s Bathrobe at The Brick. Patrice is also a lazy witch, enthusiastic cat person, and death doula. Their current work is an in-progress documentary based soundwalk for Clare Island, County Mayo, Ireland.
Photo Credit: Christian Johnson
New York City is on the unceded territory of Lenapehoking. I acknowledge the traditional stewards of this land and the generations of trauma and genocide that have been forced on them first by settlers and perpetuated by individual privileges and systemically through the state. I am committed to following, uplifting, and supporting Indigenous voices, actions, and land care while recognizing that the United States was built on stolen land by stolen people taken through the Middle Passage. No one is free until all are free - I say this because it is only through our acts of radical imagining, collaboration, and reparations that a roadmap to abolition and out of our climate crisis is born. Each project and process lives this acknowledgement differently - let's chat!
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