TIM MILLER
(USA)
Nov. 11, 12, 8pm at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
Public Energy and
Artspace present the Ontario premiere of Tim Miller's Us.
Us is American performance artist Tim Miller's funny, sassy and
pissed-off exploration of everything from Broadway musicals to exile in
gay marriage-friendly Canada. The piece careens from memories of a ten
year old's plan to flee to Canada to escape the war in Viet Nam (Man
of La Mancha), to a meditation on why a Southern California child
spoke in an English accent (Oliver!), to a surreal tug-of-war at
the edge of America as the Niagara Falls rushes between his legs (Don't
Rain on My Parade!).
Miller's solo performances have been presented all over the world, in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is co-founder of Performance Space 122 in Manhattan, and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Calif. Since 1990, he has taught performance at UCLA. In the early 90's, Miller gained international fame as one of the so-called "NEA 4", four artists who successfully sued the US government after their funding was withdrawn under political pressure from the Bush White House.