Dr. Sarah Miller

Biography

Sarah Gutsche-Miller is an Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. Her research primarily focuses on nineteenth-century dance music, nationalism, and the role of women in music. She completed her PhD at McGill University in 2010, where she was awarded the Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Following her doctoral studies, she pursued postdoctoral research under the guidance of Lynn Garafola at Columbia University and Barnard College, supported by a SSHRC fellowship. Gutsche-Miller has published essays on ballet and presented papers at various conferences across North America and Europe, examining topics related to dance, nationalism, and influential composers such as Nielsen and Ravel. In 2015, she published a book titled "Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913," through the University of Rochester Press as part of the Eastman Studies in Music series. This book aims to illuminate the forgotten culture and repertoire of ballet, as well as challenge the myth surrounding the influence of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes on the ballet revival of early twentieth-century Paris. Currently, she is working on projects focused on Madame Mariquita’s modernist ballets created at the Paris Opéra-Comique from 1898 to 1918 and the integration of ballet into Parisian boulevard-theatre spectacles in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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