Founded in 2006 by choreographer Andrea Miller, Gallim Dance is a New York City based company. The mission of Gallim Dance is to create, to play inside the imagination, to find juxtapositions of the mind and body that resonate in the soul, to investigate our limitations and pleasures, and to realize the endless human capacity for inspiration.

Andrea's works are simultaneously kinetic and intimate expressions of the self and its inner mosaic of weakness, desires and struggles. Her use of extreme physicality- movement that shifts between explosive power and contained tension- creates an experience where the dancers appear to exist at the edge of their limits, hanging between the known and unknown.

Gallim Dance burst onto the New York dance scene in it's first year. Gallim's debut performance in May 2007 at Joyce SoHo Presents caught the attention of the New York City dance community bringing momentum to the burgeoning group of artists. The company has gone on to perform in many of New York's premiere dance venues including Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research at Judson Church Dance Theater Workshop, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Juilliard Theater, Battery Park, and The Flea Theater.

DANCER

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Andrea grew up dancing at the University of Utah’s Children Dance Theatre. Her early studies of The Doris Humphrey technique with Ernestine Stodelle and Gail Corbin led to her more formal dance training at The Juilliard School. Upon receiving her BFA from Juilliard, Andrea moved to Tel Aviv, Israel to join Ohad Naharin’s Ensemble Batsheva, where she performed the works of Naharin and Sharon Eyal in Israel, Europe and New York. Andrea has also had the privilege of dancing with numerous companies including Cedar Lake, Limon Dance Company and The Buglisi Dance Theater.

CHOREOGRAPHER

In 2006 Andrea returned to New York City to establish Gallim Dance, a contemporary dance company that supports the creation and performance of her choreography. Her work has been presented in the United States, Canada and Israel. Venues include, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Battery Park, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Flea Theater, Clark Studio Theater, Martha Graham Studios, Paul Mellon Arts Center (Connecticut), Teatron Suzan Delal (Tel Aviv), Studio Varda (Tel Aviv), The Norman Rothstein Theatre (Vancouver).

Andrea is the recipient of the 1999 choreographer award from the Connecticut Shoreline Alliance for the Arts, the Hubbard Street 2 Choreographic Competition, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting Artist in Residence (MAD AIR), and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF Grant. Recent commissions include Repertory Dance Theater (UT), Zenon Dance Company (MN), and Arts Umbrella (Vancouver). She has choreographed for students at The Juilliard School, Alvin Ailey, SUNY Purchase, and New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble. In addition to choreography, Miller occasionally set’s the work of Ohad Naharin.

TEACHER 

Andrea teaches a dance class that is deeply informed by her unique experience as a dancer with Ohad Naharin’s Ensemble Batsheva and by her own movement investigation as a choreographer and dancer. Andrea uses structured improvisation to research how to access movement from the body. Improvisation is used as a means to understand the capacity of the body, it’s anatomy, it’s power, it’s ability to be simple and complex. The class ends with a choreographed sequence in which students practice the tools gained from the improvisations. Her class is appropriate for intermediate to advanced students.

In addition to dance, Andrea teaches movement for actors. The class approaches movement and the relationship between people and space by exploring three action words: Escape, Catch, Rescue.