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NICKI MILLER (she/her) is an interdisciplinary theatre maker, aerial artist, performer, writer, and movement educator interested in art and performance that ignites the imagination, troubles the intellect, and nourishes the body.
Nicki creates “art medicine” through theatrical encounters that connect bodies, minds, and environments to one another at the intersection of science and mysticism. Collaboration and relationship are central to her practice and process. Rather than approaching work with a discipline-specific focus, interdisciplinary art and performance emerges through poetic relationships between her skills and interests. Her practices of of aerial dance, rigging dramaturgy, puppetry, playwriting, collage (video, sound, analog, assemblage), and ritual interact with studies of applied neuroscience, ecology, indigenous traditions, Kabbalistic dream work, and disability studies to create spaces of artistic togethering that restore the empathetic and somatic connections necessary to dream forward as a collective. Nicki has also worked as a specialist integrating aerial arts into the dramaturgy and staging of theatre, opera, and dance productions since 2010. She was co-founding artistic director of Only Child Aerial Theatre (with Kendall Rileigh 2012-2021). Residencies include Cirkus Cirkör (Sweden), the 2016/17 New Victory LabWorks Program, the Santa Barbara Floor to Air Festival, Toronto Circus Sessions, and 5th Wall Studio, among others.
Nicki holds an undergraduate degree in Drama from Syracuse University, several movement coaching certifications, and an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College.
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