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Mira Nadon was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and began her ballet training at the age of six at the Inland Pacific Ballet Academy in Montclair, California under the direction of Victoria Koenig and Jill Voznick.

She attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of NYCB, in 2014 and 2015, before entering SAB full-time for the 2015 winter term.

In November 2017, Ms. Nadon became an apprentice with NYCB and as an apprentice she originated a corps role in Gianna Reisen’s Judah. She joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in November 2018.

Ms. Nadon was promoted to the rank of soloist dancer in January 2022, and to principal in February 2023.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

  • Apollo 
  • Bourrée Fantasque
  • Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
  • Concerto Barocco
  • "Emeralds" from Jewels 
  • Episodes
  • Errante
  • The Four Temperaments
  • Kammermusik No. 2
  • Liebeslieder Walzer
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena)
  • Monumentum pro Gesualdo
  • Movements for Piano and Orchestra
  • George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Dewdrop, Flowers, Sugarplum Fairy)
  • Raymonda Variations
  • "Rubies" from Jewels
  • Scotch Symphony
  • Stars and Stripes 
  • Stravinsky Violin Concerto
  • Vienna Waltzes

ULYSSES DOVE

  • Red Angels

PETER MARTINS

  • Black Swan Pas de Deux
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Courage, Diamond, Lilac Fairy)
  • Swan Lake (Princess)

JUSTIN PECK

  • Bright

ALEXEI RATMANSKY

  • Namouna, A Grand Divertissement
  • Pictures at an Exhibition

JEROME ROBBINS

  • Brandenburg
  • The Concert
  • Dances at a Gathering
  • The Four Seasons (Summer)
  • Glass Pieces
  • Moves
  • Piano Pieces
  • Rondo

PAM TANOWITZ

  • Gustave le Gray No. 1
  • Law of Mosaics

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON

  • DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse

Keerati Jinakunwiphat

  • Fortuitous Ash

Sidra Bell

  • pixelation in a wave (Within Wires)
  • SUSPENDED ANIMATION

Justin Peck

  • Copland Dance Episodes

Tiler Peck

  • Concerto for Two Pianos

Alysa Pires

  • Standard Deviation

Alexei Ratmansky

  • Solitude

Pam Tanowitz

  • Bartók Ballet

Lauren Lovette

  • The Shaded Line

Gianna Reisen

  • Judah

Justin Peck

  • Principia

Anatomy of a dance

MIRA NADON ON TILER PECK'S PIANO FOR TWO CONCERTOS

Mira Nadon reflects on the choreographic process of her fellow principal dancer Tiler Peck's first work for NYCB, emphasizing how their collegial familiarity lent itself not only to Nadon's success in this role, but in her approach to all of her repertory.

ANATOMY OF A DANCE

MIRA NADON ON RUBIES FROM JEWELS

Though her stature made her an obvious fit for the soloist (or "Tall Girl") role in Rubies, Mira Nadon wasn't always certain she'd live up to her predecessors' powerful interpretations. After rising to the occasion season after season, Nadon now says that "once you get the counts down, you don't even really need to think about it.

HONORS

Nadon is a recipient of the 2022 Princess Grace Award and the 2021 Clive Barnes Award in Dance.

Portrait © Erin Baiano