Workshop with Betsy Miller

This is an eclectic contemporary release technique class that pulls from a range of stylistic and philosophical approaches.

Class begins with a full-bodied floorwork-to-footwork warmup designed to activate our core and connect breath with movement while finding ease through anatomically efficient pathways. Through structured improvisations and set exercises, we will explore dynamics, weight shifts, flow, and the thrill of momentum. Class will finish with a juicy, high-energy dance phrase. This is an environment where we can explore movement, take risks, laugh, sweat, and ask questions.

Cost $15 for the first hour, $20 for 2 hours: SIGN UP

Born and raised in rural Ohio, Betsy Miller is a dance artist, educator, and facilitator now based in Salem, Massachusetts. Her choreography blends improvisational practice, ritual, athleticism, and theatricality through collaborative practices, and has been presented in venues across the country, from Jacksonville to Seattle and Las Vegas to Boston. She has performed with Lostwax Multimedia Dance and Fusionworks, and has appeared in works by Kathleen Hermesdorf, Heidi Henderson, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Audrey MacLean and Rachel Boggia, and in collaborations with Matthew Cumbie, Lida Winfield, Meghan McLyman, and Shawn Hove. Miller was a 2025 and 2018 Salem Public Art Grantee, 2023 and 2017 Bates Dance Festival Artist in Residence, 2019 Next Steps for Boston Dance Awardee, and a 2016 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellow. Currently serving as Associate Professor of Dance at Salem State University, Miller has been on faculty at Providence College, Connecticut College, Dean College, and AS220, and regularly teaches and performs as a guest artist throughout New England and beyond. She holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University and a BA in Dance from Connecticut College.