Choreographer and dancer Bebe Miller's interest in finding a physical language for the human condition is a connecting thread throughout her work, and, in order to further a process of group inquiry, she formed the Bebe Miller Company in 1985, performing worldwide. Her work, Landing/Place (2005), is a multi-media work made in collaboration with ACCAD, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Department of Dance. The performance received a New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") in 2006. Miller created works for Boston Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and Philadanco. A four-time Bessie winner, she received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts. She served as a board member for Dance/USA, Dance Theater Workshop, and Danspace Project, and is a member of the International Artists Advisory Board of the Wexner Center for the Arts. She collaborated with the Department of Dance in producing several digital documentation works, including a DVD of "Going to the wall," a compact disc of "Prey" that accompanies the Labanotation score, and DanceCODES, a software template for choreographic documentation. She is on the Dance faculty at Ohio State University where she teaches modern technique, improvisation, repertory, Creative Practice and Choreography, and a graduate seminar in Current Issues in Dance. Miller received her master's degree in Dance from Ohio State University in 1975.

Bebe Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. As a child her mother insisted that she be given the opportunity to be educated in both dance and music. This insistence allowed her to study piano and music theory at the Henry Settlement in lower Manhattan and the chance to study dance with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. Nikolais' and Louis' theories of composition and improvisation were the basis of her early training and influenced her developing aesthetic. In 1971, Miller received her bachelor's degree in fine arts from Earlham College. She continued her practical education in dance with artists such as Phyllis Lamhut, Maggie Black, Cindy Green, Dan Wagoner and Larry Rhodes as well as Nina Wiener with whom she danced for six years. After touring in the United States and Europe with choreographer Dana Reitz, Miller started her own company, the Bebe Miller Company, in 1985, by which time she had been actively creating dances for seven years.

Miller's interest in finding a physical language for the human condition is a connecting thread throughout her work. She has investigated a mix of theatrical narrative, performance and movement to expand this language, in "Going To The Wall" (1998), and "Tiny Sisters in the Enormous Land" (1995). In 1999, she, along with choreographer Ralph Lemon and filmmaker Isaac Julien, completed the award-winning, collaborative film, "Three." Miller's dance work "History" and the Dance Fort project investigate archives as sites of recreation and interaction between artists, scholars, and other audiences, as well as reveal the processes of "how we do what we do." Collaboration being a fundamental element in her process, Miller has worked with composers Robin Holcomb, Fred Frith, Don Byron, and Hahn Rone; visual artists Caroline Beasley-Baker, Robert Kushner, and Eve Andree Larame; dramaturg Talvin Wilks; and filmmakers such as Kit Fitzgerald, Isaac Julien, and Lily Skove. She also acknowledges the collaborative contribution of the dancers she has worked with, past and present, who have informed her process. Miller has created original works for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and Philadanco, among others. Miller's work has been staged internationally in Martinique, England, the Netherlands, and South Africa. She has been honored with three Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and an American Choreographer's Award. Miller currently serves on the boards of Dance/USA, Dance Theater Workshop, and Danspace Project, and is a member of the International Artist's Advisory Board of the Wexner Center along with being a full professor in Dance at Ohio State University.

The Bebe Miller Company was founded in 1985 to support and further Miller's exploration in creating cross-disciplinary, collaborative new works. The Company has toured extensively throughout the United States and in eight countries. In 2005, the Company celebrated its 20th anniversary, and has since re-structured as "virtual company," with company members and collaborators living and operating in various locations across the United States. New work is developed through long-term residencies, and "virtual residencies" via digital media. The Bebe Miller Company has been commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music NEXT WAVE Festival, City Center Theater, The Joyce Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, Northrop Auditorium, On The Boards, Hancher Auditorium, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Artaud, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, New England Presenters, Bates Dance Festival, Dance Place, Painted Bride Art Center, Creative Time, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancing in the Streets and The Danspace Project.