Gill Wright-Miller Affiliation: Faculty Title: Chair & Associate Professor Email: millerg@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-6766 B.F.A. from Denison University M.A. from Wesleyan University Ph.D. from New York University

Certified Reconstructor and Teacher of Labanotation
C.M.A. Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies

Gill Wright Miller, Associate Professor and Chair, received her B.F.A. degree in Dance Performance from Denison University, her M.A. degree in Movement Studies from Wesleyan University, and her Ph.D. degree in Dance and Women's Studies from New York University.  Two years out of undergraduate school, she was invited back to Denison to teach two courses in Labanotation and then reconstruct a work from a score.  She then moved to Kenyon College and to the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City before returning to her alma mater in 1981. A Certified Reconstructor, she has staged works by Humphrey, Lampert, Limon, Sokolow, and Weidman, and has performed with Carla De Sola, Deborah Hay, Richard Bull Improvisational Theatre, and Lisa Naugle and Dancers. In March 1995, Gill produced an evening concert, where you're not, both at Denison and in New York City. October, 1995, marked her debut in reconstruction at Lincoln Center. But her passion is for dance's political theory.  Her written research concerns public constructions of the pregnant body, healing from a developmental movement base, and body politics in general. Gill's dissertation was titled Meditations on Public Performance and Pregnancy: A Feminist Dance Analysis. Her publications include "Playing toward Healing," (an essay describing a treatment of neurological dysfunction of coordination through basic developmental movement), and "Becoming: Choreographic Fruits of the Womb," (an essay about revealing the physical capacity of the pregnant body while dancing), "Leaving / Inspiration / To Grow," (a chapter in the book Unbecoming Mothers), and "BMC, Postmodernism, and the Academy" (an essay that argues physical developmental movement parallels intellectual developmental movement).  In press at the moment is a work called "Mentoring from a Distance: BMC in the College Classroom."  Gill is highly involved in the world of experiential anatomy, most specifically Body-Mind Centering.  She also sits on the Boards of several dance organizations around the country and volunteers for Welsh Hills School, a local Montessori-based primary school.