Artists at Work w/Laura GorensteinMiller

With an eye for technique and mentorship opportunities, choreographer Laura Gorenstein Miller will introduce students to a fiercely physical, hyper-romantic form of partnering. By workshopping Miller'sAll Shook Up, students will explore how to process and embody meaning without the limitation of language.

All Shook Upis a four-part suite set to the sultry, genre-defining songs of Elvis Presley. Miller, for the Winter Session, will first set a section that demonstrates how dance can serve as a medium for protest, specifically through the lens of Roe vs. Wade. Then Miller will workshop and collaboratively design a second section of viscerally romantic gender-inclusive duets with the students in real-time. The dance situates love and loss as concurrent forces, indulging audiences’ desire to share in a night of resistance, jubilation, and passion.

Miller has premiered work at venues around the world, including at The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, The Royal Opera House, UCLA’s Royce Hall, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, the Alberta Jubilee Theaters, The Getty Center, The Getty Villa, and The Broad Stage. Her choreography has been set on American Ballet Theater, American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, CalArts, The Milwaukee Ballet, and Bodytraffic, among others. Miller has choreographed numerous animated films, including the Oscar-nominated Puss In Boots, Madagascar 3, The Addams Family, the Netflix animated feature Trouble, and Rise of the Guardians. She recently choreographed an animated feature film with original music by composer Alan Menken for Skydance and Apple Studios and is now choreographing The Smurfs for Paramount Pictures, starring Rhianna as Smurfette. Miller has worked at several academic institutions, including as a Guest Lecturer at Brown University and a Guest Artist at the CalArts Choreolab. Miller has also choreographed augmented and virtual reality projects for New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival, Microsoft, and the Future of Storytelling. She is the founder of Helios Dance Theater, a graduate of CalArts, and studied at the Laban Center in London.