About Okwae A. Miller & Artists
Okwae A. Miller & Artists shatters tradition in dance by integrating technology and collaboration across mediums to produce immersive interdisciplinary work that is radical, engaging and necessary. Highly graphic and expressively pure, we generate work that shifts the narrative of marginalized communities and decolonizes the black/queer body through storytelling of embodied history, thoughtful movement contemplation and anthropological research. Our work reimagines dance beyond the scope of performance, allowing audiences to experience nuances of healing and introspection through multi-dimensional activations.
Okwae A. Miller
Okwae A. Miller is a research-based and interdisciplinary choreographer, educator and community activist who explores the moving body as a political site, speaking into complex issues of identity, embodied history and decolonization of black/queer experiences. Through storytelling, intention and collaboration he develops choreographic work that shifts the narrative and socialized biases of marginalized communities. Representing a diverse background in performing arts and social sciences; his work intersects collaboration of mediums, technology and research to cultivate multi-dimensional activations. Highly graphic and expressively pure, Miller's regard to identity politics and creative environments are informative through the texture of movement, creative process and the use of collaborative effort.
An Atlanta native, he studied dance at The University of North Carolina, Duke University/ADF and The Ailey School. Nuanced, reflective and athletic, his work has been featured with exceptional acclaim throughout the eastern coast, including New York, DC and the Atlanta since his establishment of Okwae A. Miller & Artists in 2017. Trained in classical ballet, Cunningham, Humphrey, Limon, Horton, Graham and Afro-Cuban techniques, he blends these styles to generate his own voice. This assemblage of movement is the foundation of his bold and richly layered athletic style that demands your attention, confronts your expectations and invites you into a profound space of reflection.
Throughout his artistic career, Okwae has collaborated with Andrea Woods-Valdes, The Lucky Penny, and T. Lang Dance. His choreography has been featured in several festivals and events along the eastern coast, including All Out Arts Fresh Fruit Festival, Triangle Dance Festival for AIDS, Spelman College, Emory University and the International Association for Blacks in Dance.
In 2022, Okwae relocated to San Diego, to explore intentional displacement in efforts of healing, contemplation and redefinition of process and composition of dance and performance. In his time in SoCal, he completed his IMPACT artist residency at Bread & Salt Gallery. During this residency, he began the development of “rose.water//copper.garden,” which follows the intricacies of a non-linear healing journey to regenerate the nervous system dysregulated by heartbreak while punctuating the sifts of beauty with the phases of self from the past to the present. This work has grown conceptually over the past two years in several iterations; including activating the Bread & Salt main gallery space with a solo-exhibition in January of 2024. Followed up with the latest iteration of this work as an immersive choreographic installation supported by multimedia projection and atmospheric sound hosted at Best Practice (SD) in May 2025.