Process Immersion is a deep dive into the creative process.

Each immersion offers a new lens into how we might experience and participate as artists, collaborators, and generative beings in the creative process.

 

PROCESS IMMERSION with Andrea Miller

GALLIM Process Immersion with GALLIM’s Artistic Director and Choreographer, Andrea Miller

Dive deep into your creative process with GALLIM’s Artistic Director Andrea Miller in this Process Immersion for all choreographers, movement collaborators and directors. Participants will engage in movement generation processes, creative exploration and improvisational games throughout the week. 

The 2024 Process Immersion with Andrea Miller offers a lens into the groundbreaking creative methodology developed by Miller in her 16 years as choreographer and creative director at GALLIM, bringing art, ideas, story and embodiment into a practice of craft and creative expression. 

Dates: Monday-Thursday, June 3rd - 6th, 2024
Times:
Mon-Wed:10:30am - 4:30pm
Thurs: 10:30-6:00pm
Location: Marymount Manhattan College
221 E 71st St, New York, NY 10021

Applications will be open through April 29 and artists will be notified by May 6.

 

“Movement is my principle, medium, and vision towards understanding our human experience. I explore essential elements of human behavior and existence through movement and performance. Practically, this means I observe, listen, feel, and turn up the volume on how the body lives a life. I put value in the wisdom of the body. I then place movement in spaces and collaborations that activate an inquiry about existence, the body, and how we behave with each other and our planet. This often means collaborating across disciplines, communities, and places with which I can feel unfamiliar. Movement becomes then a path towards each other and getting hints of transcendence —beyond conventional rationality, communication and understanding… “

- ANDREA MILLER

 

SAMPLE SCHEDULE

10:30-11:45 GALLIM Methods with Andrea Miller

11:45-1:15 Andrea Miller Process

1:15 -2:00 LUNCH

2:00-4:30 Your Process with Andrea Miller

4:30-6:00 (Thurs) Creative Inquiry with Andrea Miller

GALLIM Methods is a movement technique training which practices Andrea Miller’s movement philosophy and creative methodology through a guided conversation between the body's network of systems and the imagination.

 
 

REGISTRATION

Eligibility

All artists 18+ interested in developing and expanding their own understanding of creative process, choreography and generative practices in an open, supportive environment. Prior experience with improvisation and movement generation is recommended, but is not a requirement.

Applications Requirements

  • Artist statement
  • Statement of interest
  • 2-5 minute video of your work

Selection Criteria

Strength of interest in the creative process, improvisation and movement generation; individual voice; and calling toward deepening one's artistic process through this Process Immersion.

There is a limited attendance capacity for this workshop.

Tuition

$600

Two full Emergent Artist Scholarships will be awarded to artists of the global majority including but not limited to Black and African American, Asian, Hispanic and Latino/a/x, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, Middle Eastern or North African, and multiracial. Please indicate on the application if you would like to be considered for this scholarship. Scholarship awardees will be notified on May 6th.

Thanks to the generosity of the Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation, need-based financial assistance is available upon request. We encourage you to apply.
 
 

FACULTY

Andrea Miller is a choreographer, creative director, and founder of the internationally renowned multidisciplinary organization GALLIM. A creator and collaborator for dance, film, fashion, and the visual arts, Miller is known for her exploration of the essential elements of human behavior and the alchemy of human expression through the medium of movement and performance.

Miller is a Guggenheim, Sadler's Wells, New York City Center, and Princess Grace Fellow, and was featured in Forbes as an entrepreneur and leader in the dance world. She is the first choreographer to be named Artist in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, creating two large scale works for The Temple of Dendur and the full 5th floor of The Met Breuer. Her visual art collaborations include a sound, sculpture, and performance installation for Lincoln Center featuring 25 community members processing the pandemic through breath, music, theater and dance, as well as works for The Glass House, Art Basel, Frieze Festival, Grace Farms, Grand Central Station and a film shared by The Guggenheim Museum.

Miller’s dance works are presented by leading institutions and festivals around the world including Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, City Center, The Joyce, Jacob’s Pillow, BAM, Royal Albert Hall, Sadler's Wells, London Royal Opera House, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Teatre Grec of Barcelona, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Canal Madrid, Teatro Nacional de Panamá, DanceHouse Vancouver, Spoleto Festival, and others. 

Recent dance commissions include New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Bern Ballet, Noord Nederland Dans, Pennsylvania Ballet, A.I.M, Rambert2, Ailey II, and The Juilliard School. She has created dance for film with celebrated directors including Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, Xavier Dolan, Ezra Hurwitz, Bat-Sheva Guez and long time collaborator Ben Stamper.

Miller is an Adjunct Professor at Marymount Manhattan College and guest faculty at The Juilliard School, where she is an alumna. Her repertory, creative methodology and dance training have been taught across the country including Marymount Manhattan, The Juilliard School, NYU, UC Kaufman, Harvard, Barnard and others.

Her collaborations in fashion and brands include Hermès, VOGUE, Bergdorf and Goodman, SportsMax, KSwiss, Lacoste, Target, Calvin Klein, Crate & Barrel, SLS Hotels Miami and Las Vegas, and the ministry of tourism of Panama.

Miller serves on the board of Chelsea Factory and The Doris Humphrey Foundation.

 
 
 

GALLIM SCHOOL OF MOVEMENT SUPPORTERS

GALLIM School of Movement Leadership Support & Founding School Sponsorship

Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation

GALLIM School of Movement is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and Donors Like You!