BLUSH

Photo by Rachel Papo

World Premiere| Joyce SoHo, 2009

Andrea Miller’s Blush expands the sudden moment of blushing into a sixty-minute flood. this intimate work chases one of the most elusive human expressions.

Dense with emotional rawness and physical exertion, this intimate work chases one of the most elusive human expressions – the blush – through stress and rapture as it melts to the edges of the skin. Set in a boxing ring-like arena, BLUSH unravels to the music of Mannyfingers, Andrej Przybytkowski, Chopin, Kap Bambino, Arvo Part, and Wolf Parade. Since its 2009 premiere, BLUSH has toured worldwide to the highest critical acclaim and has received multiple awards.

PRESS

Miller “crafts eye-catching, original movement that vaguely suggests everything from ballet to punk alienation, while often engineering startling constructs and sequences all her own.”

“Gallim Dance brought the goods last night… but it wasn’t simply the fact that Miller’s work is a suspenseful evolution of highs, lows, peaks and valleys; it was also that the dancers look like they’re having a blast dancing it.”

“Sexy, reckless and edgy as hell, this performance [is] exciting as high art can get.”

"The impact of this piece is so powerful - and the dancers perform so urgently, so intently about things that, while hard to verbalize, are so essential to our being - that it's hard to leave the show without feeling changed..”

“On some level, Blush is unfathomable. On another it’s as dangerously, sensuously present as a touch on your own flesh.”

“It’s a roller coaster of a piece - an experience of controlled loss-of-control aimed at cracking apart our presumptions of what makes us tick…. “Blush’’ exposes the sadistic underbelly of love as jauntily as the giddiness of community.”