Stephanie Miracle is an international choreographer and teaching artist investigating the intersections between the ordinary/seen and imagined/unseen landscapes. Her process is dedicated to the concept of abundant possibility found within awareness of and play within the everyday setting. These works manifest as site-specific happenings, sound installations, experimental films, and live stage performances.

Stephanie's choreography has been described as “iconic and nuanced…with an irreverence that makes you smile unconsciously” (Rick Westerkamp review of GROOVE, 2014). Her projects have been presented in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Ireland, Russia, France, Portugal, New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, by various institutions including MetLife Foundation, Exchange Festival, Dance Place, Supernovl Festival, Open Look Festival, Performatica, Belhaven University, ES WIRD SOGAR SCHÖN, Barnes Crossing, Fiktiva Festival, kunstOrteleven, Santa Barbara Dance Theatre, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Ormao Dance Company, Open Air Media Festival, International Impro Dance Festival Istanbul, and WAM! Festival. Her collaborative piece Drafting Plan was awarded Best Duo at Barnes Crossing Festival 2015 in Cologne and at the 2016 SzoloDuo Festival in Budapest. Other awards include the Smith Scholarship Grant to attend ImPulsTanz in 2012, Dance Artist-in-Residence at Omi International Dance Residency 2012, Guest Mentor of Omi Dance in 2016, DC Innovation grant in 2013, Bates Dance Festival Merit Scholarship 2013, Goldhaber Travel Scholarship 2014, and NextNOW 2014, Interdisciplinary Humanities Grant 2018, Trust for Mutual Understanding 2019, Public Arts CIC 2020, Arts Across Borders 2021 Banff Center of Arts and Creativity Choreographer Residency 2021, Public Arts Matching Grant 2020 & 2022, Iowa Arts Council Resilience Grant 2021/22,  J.J. Neiman-Brown Academic Caretaking Fund Grant 2022, Stanley International Travel Award 2022, Arts and Humanities Initiative Award 2023/24, IAC Professional Development Award 2024, and a CLAS DSHB Humanities Scholar Award 2024.

She has been an artist in residence at Keshet Arts, Omi International, kunstOrt_eleven, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Her dance films have been shown at Lincoln Center Dance for Camera, EnCore: Dance on Film, Reutlingen Museum, Iowa International Dance Festival, Athens Experimental Film Fest, Open Air Media Festival and RAD Dance Fest. Her most recent experimental film project, MAMMAL HALL, was created with Auden-Lincoln Vogel, Ramin Roshandel, and UI dancers while in residence at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History. 

A 2014/15 German Fulbright Fellow in the Performing Arts, Stephanie has focused her research on the embodied practice of tanztheater. Examples of her field work include intensively studied Jooss-Leeder technique, learned repertory from Pina Bausch with the Tanztheater Wuppertal, studied Inner Suspension with Susanne Linke, and worked on a new creation with Reinhild Hoffmann. Her research is searching for intersections between Klein Technique™ and European tanztheater specifically in dynamic use of space and expression through the body.

As a performer she has had the privilege of dancing professionally for Deganit Shemy, Laura Peterson, Shannon Gillen/Vim Vigor, David Dorfman Dance, Heart Stück Bernie, Susan Marshall and Company, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Elizabeth Dishman, Rodolpho Leoni, Henrietta Horn, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, and Deborah Hay. In 2015, she joined as a full-time company member with the Folkwang Tanzstudio/FTS and from 2018 - 2019 she was the company’s choreographer in residence. 

She is the artistic director of FAKERS CLUB (2015 - present), an international ensemble project that creates live-cinema performances in public spaces. FAKERS CLUB’s site-specific “episodes” have been produced by festivals and commissioned by institutions in Germany, Turkey, Italy, and France. She is also one of the founding collaborators in the ongoing dance and media project Dance Dialogue with Nicole Wolcott and Kristen Hollingsworth.

Stephanie holds an MFA in dance (2014) from the University of Maryland and a BA in dance from Belhaven University (2004). She became a certified teacher of Klein Technique™ in 2017 and regularly teaches workshops nationally and internationally. 

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