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Miriam Miller was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and began her dance training in 2001 at University of Iowa Youth Ballet and School of Dance under the direction of Kathryn Smith. In 2006, she began studying with Sarah Barragan at City Ballet of Iowa. 

Ms. Miller attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, in 2011 and 2012, enrolling as a full-time student during the 2012 winter term.

In January 2015, she became an apprentice with NYCB. While still an apprentice with NYCB, Miller performed the role of Titania in George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as featured roles in Balanchine’s Harlequinade (La Bonne Fée) and Peter Martins’ Swan Lake (Princess). She joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in January 2016.

Ms. Miller was promoted to the rank of soloist in January 2022, and to the rank of principal in January 2025.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

  • Agon
  • Apollo (Calliope)
  • Chaconne
  • Concerto Barocco
  • Coppélia (Prayer)
  • Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet 
  • Episodes
  • Firebird (Princess)
  • The Four Temperaments
  • Harlequinade (La Bonne Fée)
  • Kammermusik No. 2
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania)
  • Monumentum pro Gesualdo
  • George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Coffee, Dewdrop, Flowers, Sugarplum Fairy)
  • Prodigal Son (The Siren)
  • Serenade
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  • Swan Lake (Odette)
  • Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (Elegie)
  • La Valse
  • Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir
  • Vienna Waltzes

             

             

             

             

             

PETER MARTINS

  • Barber Violin Concerto
  • Fearful Symmetries
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Generosity, Lilac Fairy)
  • Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Princess, Spanish)

JUSTIN PECK

  • Bright
  • Copland Dance Episodes
  • Everywhere We Go
  • Heatscape
  • Partita
  • Pulcinella Variations
  • Year of the Rabbit

TILER PECK

  • Concerto for Two Pianos 

ALEXEI RATMANSKY

  • Paquita
  • Voices

JEROME ROBBINS

  • Fancy Free
  • The Goldberg Variations

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON

  • After the Rain Pas de Deux

AMY HALL GARNER

  • Underneath, There Is Light

Lauren Lovette

  • The Shaded Line

Justin Peck

  • Copland Dance Episodes

Pam Tanowitz

  • Bartók Ballet
  • Law of Mosaics

Justin Peck

  • The Most Incredible Thing
  • Principia
  • Rotunda

Christopher Wheeldon

  • American Rhapsody

Tête-à-Tête

Alec Knight x Miriam Miller

From debuts to injuries and the highs and lows in between, Alec Knight and Miriam Miller have navigated it all side by side as they reflect on their journey into the company, the people who helped them along the way, and what they hope to leave behind.

HONORS

Ms. Miller is a recipient of a 2017 Princess Grace Award.

Portrait © Erin Baiano