Amanda Miller is Artistic Director of Miro Dance Theatre, was a Co-Founder/Director of Phrenic New Ballet and was a dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet from 1993 through 2002. Her choreographic works have been performed nationally and internationally in venues ranging from the Royal Opera House in London, England, to Danspace at St. Mark’s Church in New York City, with commissions by The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Miller has studied the choreographic and improvisational techniques of Alonzo King, William Forsythe, and, most recently, the choreographic methods of Siobhan Davies.

Miller’s performance experience includes world premieres by Antony Rizzi, Dwight Rhoden, Jorma Elo, Doug Elkins, Jessica Lang, and Jodie Gates, and has allowed her the opportunity to work with Alonzo King, Mark Morris, Trey McIntyre, Lar Lubavitch, Risa Steinberg, and Igal Perry. Miller’s film experience includes choreography and principal performer credits in the short films Invisible and Swan, and numerous film and dance performance collaborations with dance film artist Tobin Rothlein. Miller was a principal stunt performer in M. Night Shyamalan’s feature film, “Signs.”

Ms. Miller is a 2009 Independence Foundation Fellow in the Arts, was a finalist for the 2007 Pew Fellowship in Choreography, a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Window of Opportunity grant in 2003, and has been awarded the Dance Advance grant, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts, in 2004, 2005, and 2010 for her choreography. From 2004-2006 Miller was a resident of the Choreographer’s Project at Susan Hess Modern Dance. She is currently a member of the International Dance Council(CID)-UNESCO and is on the Board of Governors for the American Guild of Musical Artists.

Amanda Miller keeps an updated personal blog and portfolio at http://amanda-miller.net/