Andrea Miller’s dances have been circling around motherhood for a while now—birthing in one voluptuous piece, the wild progeny in another. But with Mother, she’s no longer hedging. About her first full-length work since the pandemic (she’s been busy freelancing for the New York City Ballet, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, and the Martha Graham troupe), she has said, “I wanted to confront the paradox of creation—its beauty and its hardship. Motherhood grounds you in realities that are both painful and astonishing but also connect you to something larger and timeless.” Indeed, “something larger” is practically a signature of Miller’s. In 2007, she launched her own company, the Brooklyn-based Gallim, before we’d seen much of anything from her, but then rose spectacularly to the challenge, with evening-length works that invent their own textured, inescapable world. —Apollinaire Scherr