The physically demanding choreography both showed off Bebe Miller and Company and revealed that one person's allies might be another person's enemies.
Among them was Bebe Miller, who lived in the Red Hook housing projects in Brooklyn and now runs her own dance company.
The Womanworks festival, devoted to female modern-dance choreographers, presented the last of its new programs Thursday night with works by Anna Sokolow and Bebe Miller.
Daughter of an elementary school teacher and a ship steward, Bebe Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950.
She certainly generated energy Thursday night when Bebe Miller and Company performed at St. Mark's Church as an attraction of the church's Danspace Project.
Rachel Lampert, David Parsons and Bebe Miller, the evening's guest choreographers, contributed group works.
Folds (2001), with music by Fred Frith, choreographed in collaboration with Bebe Miller.
The monthlong 92d Street Y Harkness Dance Project got off to a fine start with dance by Bebe Miller at Playhouse 91.
Dances by two of the project's choreographers - Bill T. Jones and Bebe Miller - will be performed in this festival.
In an excerpt from "The Hendrix Project," Bebe Miller went from one kinetic outburst to another.