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'''Stephen Mills''' (born August 18, 1960 in [[Morganfield, Kentucky]]) is an American [[dancer]] and [[choreographer]] and is currently the Artistic Director/Choreographer at [[Ballet Austin]]. Under his tenure, Ballet Austin has been invited on four occasions to perform at the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C]] {{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}. |
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Mills has performed at The Hong Kong Ballet, [[American Ballet Theatre Studio Company]], The [[Atlanta Ballet]], The Milwaukee Ballet, Washington Ballet, Cuballet in Havana, Cuba, BalletMet Columbus, The Dayton Ballet, The [[Sarasota Ballet]] of Florida, Ballet Pacifica, Dallas Black Dance Theater, The Louisville Ballet, The Nashville Ballet, Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet, The Sacramento Ballet and Dance Kaleidoscope.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://ballethub.com/choreographic-curiosity-an-interview-with-stephen-mills/|title=Choreographic Curiosity: An Interview with Stephen Mills - BalletHub|last=BalletHub|date=10 December 2013|website=Ballethub.com|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> |
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Born in North Queensland, Stephen Mills was an underage QLD cricket representative, before moving across to Aussie Rules. |
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==Career== |
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===Early years=== |
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Following ten years of study in the [[Cincinnati Conservatory of Music]], Mills started dancing at the age of 18.<ref name="auto"/> As a dancer, he performed with a wide variety of companies such as the [[Harkness Ballet]] and The [[American Dance Machine]] under the direction of Lee Theadore. He also performed with the [[Cincinnati Ballet]] and The Indianapolis Ballet Theater before becoming a part of Ballet Austin 1986. Mills has danced principal roles in the [[George Balanchine]] repertoire as well as works by Choo-San Goh, John Butler, Ohad Naharin, Vicente Nebrada, Domy Reiter-Soffer and Mark Dendy. |
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===Dance and ballets=== |
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"Stephen Mills is a tall defender with pace, judgment and a strong pair of hands. A junior product from Rockhampton, Mills broke into the senior ranks as a 17-year-old with Southport, where he also won a scholarship with Gold Coast SUNS. His career then headed west where he spent three years in the WAFL, playing with South Fremantle and Perth. Mills has been given some important roles and always steps up to the plate." |
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Mills choreographed his first work, ''Red Roses,'' to the music of [[Edith Piaf]] in 1989 for [[Ballet Austin]]. In 1998, Mills was chosen to represent the United States through his work, ''Ashes'', at Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris. Mills choreographed several works for Ballet Austin as Resident Choreographer before being named Artistic Director in 2000. As Resident Choreographer he created works such as: ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'' and ''Cinderella'' with the music of [[Alexander Glazunov]]. |
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In his inaugural season as artistic director in 2000, Mills released a world-premiere production of Hamlet.<ref name="auto"/> He has worked in collaboration with such artists as DJ Spooky<ref>{{cite web|url=http://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/09-29-11-16-39-ballet-austin-teams-up-with-dj-spooky-on-the-mozart-project/|title=Ballet Austin teams up with DJ Spooky on collaborative creation The Mozart Project|website=Austin.culturemap.com|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> on ''Echo Boom'', visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock on ''Cult of Color: Call to Color'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/cult-of-color-call-to-color/|title=Cult of Color: Call to Color - Announcements - e-flux|website=E-flux.com|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> eight-time Grammy Award-winning band, [[Asleep at the Wheel]] on ''Big Sky'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/1998-06-05/523579/|title=Articulations|website=Austinchronicle.com|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> Shawn Colvin, flamenco artist [[José Greco]] on ''Bolero'' and award-winning Austin composer [[Graham Reynolds (composer)|Graham Reynolds]] on ''Bounce'', ''Though the Earth Gives Way'', ''Cult of Color: Call to Color'', and ''Belle REDUX/A Tale of Beauty & the Beast''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2015-02-13/a-different-beast/|title=A Different Beast|website=Austinchronicle.com|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> |
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==''Light / The Holocaust and Humanity Project''== |
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One of Mills’ most significant works is his original ballet Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project. This full-length contemporary ballet is one piece of a community wide educational initiative around [[The Holocaust]]. The work was imagined as a way for art, specifically dance, to convene a broad conversation about The Holocaust and contemporary issues of genocide and human rights. According to an archived article by the [[HuffPost|Huffington Post]], “Mills created the confrontational, distinctly contemporary ballet in 2005 after spending 18 months researching the Holocaust, when [[Nazi Party|Germany's Nazi party]] exterminated more than 6 million Jews during World War II. The ballet is set to contemporary music by [[Steve Reich]], [[Evelyn Glennie]], [[Michael Gordon (composer)|Michael Gordon]], [[Arvo Pärt|Arvo Part]] and [[Philip Glass]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/adrienne-arsht-center-holocaust-ballet_n_2017012.html |title=Holocaust Ballet to Fight Intolerance on Adrienne Arsht Center Stage (PHOTOS) |website=[[HuffPost]] |accessdate=2015-03-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331152216/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/adrienne-arsht-center-holocaust-ballet_n_2017012.html |archivedate=2015-03-31 }}</ref> |
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In 2005, Light / The Holocaust and Humanity Project was featured in [[KLRU]]'s Arts In Context ''Ballet Austin’s Light / The Holocaust and Humanity Project'' which won a Lone Star Emmy Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lonestaremmy.org/awards/archives/2005-lone-star-emmy-awardees/|title=2005 Lone Star EMMY Awardees - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Lone Star|website=Lonestaremmy.org|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> in the Magazine Format Program category. KLRU won a second Lone Star Emmy Award for their segment ''Producing Light'', also depicting Mills’ ballet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lonestaremmy.org/awards/archives/2012-lone-star-emmy-awardees/|title=2012 Lone Star EMMY Awardees - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Lone Star|website=Lonestaremmy.org|accessdate=8 October 2017}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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*[[Ballet Austin]] |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkQ5QYuf5bI&mode=related&search= Stephen Mills Introduction] |
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*[http://www.balletaustin.org/ Ballet Austin's Website] |
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[[Category:American ballet choreographers]] |
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[[Category:American male ballet dancers]] |
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{{Infobox person | name = Stephen Mills | image = | birth_date = April 10, 1995 | birth_place = Rockhampton
Born in North Queensland, Stephen Mills was an underage QLD cricket representative, before moving across to Aussie Rules.
Taken from NEAFL.com "Stephen Mills is a tall defender with pace, judgment and a strong pair of hands. A junior product from Rockhampton, Mills broke into the senior ranks as a 17-year-old with Southport, where he also won a scholarship with Gold Coast SUNS. His career then headed west where he spent three years in the WAFL, playing with South Fremantle and Perth. Mills has been given some important roles and always steps up to the plate."