Andrea Miller’s GALLIM is approaching its twentieth anniversary with a small but consequential change: for the first time, the company has commissioned a work from a choreographer other than its founder.

The new piece is by Sean Howe, a former GALLIM dancer. It appears during the company’s November 11–15 engagement at the Joyce Theater alongside a new creation by Miller and two earlier Miller works, state and YEAR.

That first outside commission is significant for a company so strongly identified with one choreographer’s physical imagination. Dancers can carry a recognizable style from one production to another; asking them to inhabit somebody else’s choreographic decisions tests what is fundamental to the company and what can change.

The earlier works were commissioned through a creative partnership with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham. Their inclusion supplies a useful bridge between Miller’s collaborations and the new opening to Howe’s work.

Founded in 2007, GALLIM turns twenty in 2027. The Joyce engagement arrives just ahead of that anniversary, with a gala on November 11 and a curtain chat following the November 12 performance.

The temptation with an anniversary season is to turn a company’s history into an achievement roll call. Here the more compelling development lies ahead: the possibility that GALLIM’s vocabulary will be altered, rather than merely repeated, by the artists invited to work inside it.

GALLIM, November 11–15, 2026, The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue. Program and tickets.

The Joyce Theater, where GALLIM will perform in November. Photograph by Ajay Suresh, 2025, CC BY 4.0; source. Venue photograph, not an image of GALLIM.