MFA Dance candidate Stephanie Miracle wins Fulbright

MFA Stephanie Miracle has been selected as Fulbright Fellow to Germany for 2014/2015. With this research grant she will experience the rich lineage of German Tanztheater — including the work of dance icon Pina Bausch — through embodied practice, including intensive training in choreography and performance at the world-renowned Folkwang University in Essen. Both Stephanie and her husband Jimmy Miracle look forward to this exciting year overseas.

Stephanie is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Maryland where she is completing her MFA in Dance. 

As a performer she has had the privilege of dancing for Deganit Shemy, Elizabeth Dishman, Shannon Gillen & Guests, Laura Peterson Choreography, alexan/the median movement, David Dorfman Dance, Joseph Poulson, Susan Marshall and Company, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Graham Brown, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, and Deborah Hay.

As a dance maker she has created works for bus stops, women's prisons, hallways, staircases, gardens and traditional theaters as well as dance for camera. Stephanie's choreography has been presented at Rooftop Dances (NYC), 100 Grand (NYC), Triskelion Arts (NYC), Round House Theater (DC), Dance Place (DC), Clarice Smith Center (MD), Supernova (VA), Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center (NYC). Stephanie has been award a Smith Scholarship Grant with which enabled her to spend two weeks at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, the Kitchen of Innovation Grant 2012, the Merit Scholarship for Bates Dance Festival 2013 and a Block Grant for 2013/2014. In 2012 she was selected at one of nine dance artists from around the world to attend OMI International Artists Residency.

She is also in the process of Klein Technique Teaching certification and regularly teaches for the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park.