![]() ![]() At her retirement gala, she was awarded the Key to the City of Columbia and the Order of the Palmetto. She retired from the stage in March 2006, dancing her final performances as the title role in Giselle. She is a Founder and Principal Instructor of the Columbia Conservatory of Dance. Miranda was recently featured on the cover of three compact discs produced by David Howard and has starred in many television works, notably A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Swan Lake, Beauty & the Beast and Romeo & Juliet for SCETV. ![]() In 1997, she won the prestigious South Carolina Arts Commission, Fellowship. Choreographer Norbert Vesak chose her to dance in his ‘Belong’ pas de deux, a work which won a gold medal for choreography at the 1980 International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. She has portrayed a myriad of roles in Executive & Artistic Director William Starrett’s original ballets, including Beauty & the Beast, Dracula, Dracula’s Revenge, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas, A Tribute to Fred Astaire, Don Juan, Frankenstein and Off the Wall & Onto the Stage. In 1976 she joined the Columbia City Ballet, becoming a soloist in 1980, a principal dancer in 1982, attained the rank of a ballerina in 1984 and became a prima ballerina in 1997, going on to dance every ballerina role in the Company’s classical repertoire. Prima Ballerina of Columbia City Ballet from 1997 to 2006 – began her ballet training with Columbia City Ballet-founder and Artistic Director Ann Brodie. ![]()
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