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I am sharing a working in progress video that shows my process of playing and pondering with some of the material we have been experimenting with over the past two months. I am not sure things are going in the direction I was expecting. That is part of the fun of it, I suppose. Being surprised by what is revealed.

Find the complete progression of the work linked below.

Ecclesiastes 1:8-18

Ecclesiastes 2:17-26

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Ecclesiastes 6:7-12

Ecclesiastes 8:6-17

Artist in Residence 2016: Stephanie Miracle Part 2

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Stephanie Miracle

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Photo taken by Jimmy Miracle

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Spark+Echo Arts, Artist in Residence 2016

2016

Dance

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June 27, 2016

I am sharing a working in progress video that shows my process of playing and pondering with some of the material we have been experimenting with over the past two months. I am not sure things are going in the direction I was expecting. That is part of the fun of it, I suppose. Being surprised by what is revealed.

I am also including a picture from this project. It is a documentation of a live performance. The man on the right hand side of the photo, a dear friend and supporter of my work, died unexpectedly just two weeks ago. This tragic event plunged me much deeper into Ecclesiastics. In my wild tumbling through questions of life and death I feel comforted by the text.

(Photo taken by Jimmy Miracle)

Spark Notes

The Artist's Reflection

Stephanie Miracle is an American born independent choreographer and performer currently based in Essen, Germany with her husband visual artist Jimmy Miracle. She earned her MFA in Dance at the University of Maryland and a BA in Dance from Belhaven University. She is also a teacher of Klein Technique™ and holds prestigious honor of being a 2014/15 German Fulbright Fellow in the Performing Arts. In 2015 she joined as a full-time dancer with the Folkwang Tanzstudio/FTS. In addition to performing with the company she often works in collaboration with Henrietta Horn (DE), Carla Jordao (PT), Ana Farfan (MX), Paola Ponti, (IT) and Anna Shchkleina (RU). She is the director of Fakers Club, a site-specific performance experiment based on film and serial television.

Stephanie's choreography has been described as “iconic and nuanced…with an irreverence that makes you smile unconsciously”(Rick Westerkamp, 2014). Often in vivid technicolor, Miracle’s works are crafted with a cinematic sensibility and follow subtle narrative threads. In addition to creating choreographies for traditional proscenium theaters her unique aesthetic finds special significance in common spaces for example, parking lots, bus stops, woman's prisons, hallways, staircases, and rooftops. in Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Russia, New York City, and Washington DC by various institutions including MetLife Foundation, Exchange Festival, Dance Place, Supernoval Festival, Open Look Festival, Performatica, Belhaven University, ES WIRD SOGAR SCHÖN, Barnes Crossing, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Other awards include the Smith Scholarship Grant to attend ImPulsTanz in 2012, dance artist-in-residence at OMI International Residency 2012, DC Innovation grant in 2013, Bates Dance Festival Merit Scholarship 2013, Goldhaber Travel Scholarship 2014, and NextNOW new work grant 2014. Her collaborative piece “Drafting Plan” was awarded Best Duo at Barnes Crossing Festival 2015 in Cologne and at the 2016 SzoloDuo Festival in Budapest. She is honored to be a 2016 Artist in Residence at Spark and Echo Arts.