BIOGRAPHY

Madeline Miller is a dancer, theatre artist, and writer hailing from many different corners of the United States. She began studying dance at the age of four at Northern Plains Dance in Bismarck, North Dakota, after she refused to stop dancing in the aisles during a production of The Sleeping Beauty. At the age of nine, Madeline and her family relocated to Helena, Montana, where she began studying ballet intensively under the direction of Campbell Midgley and Elsie Jenkins. From 2006 to 2012, she performed a variety of character roles as part of the Queen City Ballet Company in ballets such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker, and received awards at competitions such as Youth America Grand Prix, Youth Arts in Action, and Montana Dance Arts Association. While training for the Prix, she had the opportunity to work with Carol Roderick, whose nurturing yet inspiring teaching style helped to shape her approach to the art of classical ballet.

In 2012, the Miller family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Madeline began intensive study in the Balanchine style under the direction of Patricia Blair and Daniel Duell. As part of the Ballet Chicago Studio Company, she had the opportunity to learn and perform some of Balanchine’s most beloved works such as Serenade and Who Cares, and collaborated with choreographers Joshua Ishmon and Andrew Wingert to create original works. Summers spent at programs such as Joffrey Academy of Ballet, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and San Francisco Conservatory of Dance introduced her to contemporary and modern dance forms, which would later influence her decision to pursue a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Madeline will be graduating in May of 2019. During her time at the Conservatory, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Adam Houghland, Stephanie Martinez, Sydney Skybetter, Darrell Moultrie, and Roderick George to create original works for the Boston Conservatory mainstage theater. She also worked with Simona Minns to create A Hunger Artist, an original dance theatre work based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka.

In conjunction with her dance studies, Madeline is pursuing a minor in psychology through Berklee College of Music. She is a teaching assistant in the psychology department, and is currently studying teacher/student interactions in the context of ballet class with the ultimate goal of publishing a scientific paper. During the summer of 2018, she collaborated with a team of researchers at Tufts University to publish a paper on drawing as a means of interaction transcription, for which she donated her data and analysis from her ballet class interaction studies.

In addition, Madeline is the current dance department ballet tutor for the Conservatory, and holds a teaching license from the Royal Academy of Dance. She is on faculty at Metrowest Dance Academy in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she assists director Gemma Williams with ballet classes in the RAD syllabus.