In 1982, a very young Bebe Miller introduced herself as a choreographer to the downtown New York City dance scene with Vespers, an introspective yet playful solo that captivatingly balances precision and spontaneity.

In an economy that’s always after the next new thing, Johnnie Cruise Mercer insists on continuity. His epic project, A Process Anthology: The Decade from Hell and the Decade that Followed Suite, began in 2017 with the first of what he terms “process memoirs,” evening-length dances that present the creative process and documentation of memory as the work itself.