Nicki Miller
Interdisciplinary Art & Movement Medicine
recent work:
Ghost love
Conceived, written, and performed by Nicki Miller
Part wild experiment, part performance, part cocoon, Ghost Love is a ceremony of change. Inspired in part by Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, the show weaves personal narrative with puppetry, projection, and (of course) aerial storytelling, to stare fear in the face and orient towards love.
Premiere presented in partial fulfillment of the Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre at Sarah Lawrence College in March 2024.
CONTROL//ALTERNATE\\DELETE
From Sarah Lawrence College Dance Program's Time-Based Art Spring 2023
facilitated by Beth Gill & Yanira Castro
Choreographed by: Nicki Miller
Performed by Nicki Miller with assistance from Kallisti Milatou-Fakountou and moss lovejoy
Video Editing & Projection Design by Nicki Miller (featuring footage of Ronald Walter's Gear Head and other found copyright free images)
Lighting by Sophie Teachout
Music by Pink Floyd
Costumes by Nicki Miller with support from Amy Page
Rehearsal assistants: Kallisti Milatou-Fakountou, Emmariah Weiss
STICKS & STONE
Sticks & Stone was a performance project that actualized many years worth of dreaming from the imaginations of veteran interdisciplinary artists Benjamin E. Oyzon (The Metropolitan Opera, Breaking Surface, Grounded Aerial) and Nicki Miller (Only Child Aerial Theatre, Blunderland, Ripe Time).
This soulful and spellbinding work was a love letter from our bodies, to our bodies. It was also a love letter to yours.
We combined aerial rigging, puppetry, dance, and martial arts while interrogating the old proverb of sticks and stones, asking a question those words don’t address:
What do we do when our bodies become strangers to our souls?
The first workshop showings were presented
at The Performing Garage in Soho NYC on August 8-9, 2022.