| Mira is currently (February through March, 2000) a guest dancer
in the Metropolitan Operas 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
Museums 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 Hos new opera Warrior Sisters,
both in NYC and at Arizona State University. Other choreography credits include the
National Tour of Roger and Hammersteins, 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 Severitys Mistress (NYU Mainstage).
Miras 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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