Tiffany Mills is a choreographer, teacher, performer, and artistic director of the NYC-based Tiffany Mills Company. Her work focuses on human relationships and is grounded in partnering and improvisation. Her exploration is fueled by collaboration across mediums and she has most recently worked with filmmaker Ela Troyano, composers John Zorn and Ikue Mori, and experimental theater director Peter Petralia.

She moved to NYC in 1995, and formed Tiffany Mills Company in 2000, earning praise from The New York Times: "Mills is making a name for herself as a young modern-dance innovator." The Company’s collaborative work has been presented at: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival (OR), Wexner Center for the Arts (OH), Contemporary Dance Theater/National Performance Network (OH), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Residency Program (MA), Guggenheim Museum Works & Process Series, Duke on 42 Street, Symphony Space Dance Sampler, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Dancing in the Streets, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project’s City/Dans Series, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop Fresh Tracks, PS 122 Avant Garde Arama, Movement Research, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, HERE, Dance Place (DC), and internationally in Mexico and Canada. Mills’ guest teaching includes: Trisha Brown Studios, Dance New Amsterdam, and ACDFA. She has taught and set work at multiple universities and arts centers across the country.

Mills has received several grants, awards, and residencies including: Joyce Theater/Mellon Anchor Tenant Program (11-12), Baryshnikov Residency (10), DNA Residency (10), Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant (09), Joyce Residency (07-08), Field Residency (08), LMCC Swing Space Residency (08-09), Bogliasco Foundation and Jerome Robbins Foundation Fellowships (Italy 07), Help Desk (05-06), HERE’s Artist Residency (02-03), Artistic Advisory Board of Dance/NYC (02-03), ACDFA Adjudicator (04, 07), Tribeca Performing Arts Center/LMCC Space Grant (05-06), Distinguished University of Oregon Alumni Award (05), Boekhelheide Creativity Award in Chemistry, Music and Dance from the UO School of Music and Dance (06), and Bates Dance Festival Emerging Choreographer Award (98). Her Company has received funding from: Evelyn Sharp Foundation, Harkness Foundation, Fund for Creative Communities, Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Arts Council, Bossak/Heilbron, Sorin Charitable Trust, Puffin Foundation, Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Meet the Composer, and American Music Center. Mills originally hails from Eugene, Oregon (BA University of Oregon, MFA Ohio State). www.tiffanymillscompany.org