Kara Miller

About Kara

Kara Miller is a dance educator, choreographer and filmmaker. She currently resides in San Diego where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at U.C. Davis and a Jacob K. Javits Fellow.

She has served as a lecturer at The University of California Irvine, Cal State San Marcos, and Mira Costa College and taught courses in a wide range of topics including Modern, Ballet, Digital Technology for Dancers, Dance Cultures, Dance History, Choreography, and Performance Skills.

Background

A graduate of the Juilliard School in dance, Kara has performed the works of Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor, and Jose Limon and contributed to the restaging of Doris Humphrey’s “Ruins and Visions” using  Labanotation.

From 1995 – 2002 she served as the Artistic Director of the Omega Dance Company at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine presenting annual NYC seasons, performances, and commissioned dances across the country including Cathedral events for live broadcast on PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS television. 

Her current research focus is Dance Film, South Asian Dance Traditions, and Embodied Ecology.   She collaborates with dancers around the world and has toured creating performances and installations in Turkey, Prague, Mexico, Canada, India, Sri Lanka, and the U.S.  Kara recently created the video projections for new works directed and choreographed by Donald McKayle including the ballet LONG LONESOME WAY for the Huntington’s Disease Foundation, the musical ROLLER DERBY (New York Musical Theater Festival) presented at the Alvin Ailey Theater in New York, and RETURN (Festival of New American Musicals) at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Los Angeles. She has worked professionally in broadcast television and film on E!’s CLEAN HOUSE and the feature STEPMOM.

Kara is a co-curator of the annual San Diego/Tijuana DANCEonFILM Festival partnering with the Dance Films Association of Lincoln Center, the Tijuana Cultural Center, San Diego State University, and Cal State San Marcos.  She is also a founding member of the Performance Studies and Ecology intercampus arts research group at U.C. Davis.

Contact Info: karmiller@ucdavis.edu