Mira Kingsley -|- Guest Artist
 

Mira is currently (February through March, 2000) a guest dancer in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of The Merry Widow, with Placido Domingo and Frederica von Stade. She directed and co-choreographed Once Upon a Time in Chinese America, a martial arts adventure, for The 1999 JVC Jazz Festival and The Guggenheim Museum’s Works in Process Series. Over the next year, Once Upon a Time in Chinese America will be seen at several venues around the country and will return to New York in 2001 for BAM’ s Next Wave festival. This coming fall, Mira will be directing and choreographing the premiere of Jazz musician Fred Ho’s new opera Warrior Sisters, both in NYC and at Arizona State University. Other choreography credits include the National Tour of Roger and Hammerstein’s, Cinderella, the premiere of, Joyce Carol Oates new play The Passion of Henry David Thoreau (Vineyard Playhouse), Night Vision (Public Theater, "New Works Now") and Severity’s Mistress (NYU Mainstage).

Mira’s performance credits include, Broadway: Three Sisters (Roundabout) Comedy of Errors and The Odyssey (National Tour, Aquila Theatre Co. of London), Fair Fight (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and The NYS&F Festival), Journey Beyond the West, (BAM Next Wave), Peter and The Wolf (Lincoln Center), and Inherit the Wind (Mill Mountain Theatre). She has performed with numerous dance companies including The Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, David Storey Danceworks, Rosa Mei Dancers, and the Eglevsky Ballet.

She is currently developing a new piece based on Waiting for Godot with collaborator Alexandra Beller of the Bill T Jones! Arnie Zane Dance company. Mira teaches theater and dance at public and private schools around the country. She received her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Of particular interest to those in the Radford area is that she will be presenting a work as part of The Radford University Dance Ensemble's spring performance "Tapestry in Motion"

 

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