Stephanie Miracle is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Iowa, a certified teacher of Klein Technique™, and the artistic director of the international ensemble FAKERS CLUB: a live-cinema public performance project. Originally from Tulsa, OK, she holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland and a BA in Dance from Belhaven University. As a professional performer she has had the privilege of dancing for Deganit Shemy, Laura Peterson Choreography, Shannon Gillen (VIM VIGOR), David Dorfman Dance, Susan Marshall and Company, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Elizabeth Dishman, Rodolpho Leoni, Shan Gao, Henrietta Horn, Heart Stück Bernie, and Deborah Hay. In 2015 she joined Folkwang Tanzstudio in Essen, Germany as full-time company member and was the company’s 2012/19 choreographer in residence. She continues to perform with Dance Dialogue (Nicole Wolcott & Kristen Hollingsworth), Jennifer Kayle, and PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER.

Stephanie’s choreographic research investigates the intersections between dance, cinema and everyday public spaces resulting in site-specific spectacles, experimental films, sound installations, and live stage performances. Described as “iconic and nuanced…with an irreverence that makes you smile unconsciously” (Rick Westerkamp review of GROOVE, 2014), her projects have been commissioned by festivals and institutions nationally and internationally including WAM! Festival (IT), Open Look Festival St. Petersburg (RU); Performatica (MX), ES WIRD SOGAR SCHÖN (DE), SzoloDuo Festival (HU), Fiktiva Festival (DE), kunstOrteleven (DE), PS21 Chatham (NY), Dance Place (DC), Yeltsin Center (RU), Omi Dance (NY), Ormao Dance Company (CO), Santa Barbara Dance Theater (CA), Ruhrfestspiel Recklinghausen (DE), Companhia de Danca da Almada (PT), Dingle Dance Festival (IE), Open Air Media Festival (IA), International Impro Dance Festival Istanbul (TU), Theater Allegora (FR).

Recent grants and awards include: Fulbright Fellowship to Germany (2014/15), Best Duet Barnes Crossing Festival in Cologne (2016), Best Duet SzoloDuo Festival in Budapest (2017), Interdisciplinary Humanities Grant (2018), Trust for Mutual Understanding (2019), Arts Across Borders (2021), Banff Center of Arts and Creativity Online Arts Scholarship (2021), Public Arts Matching Grant (2020 & 2022), Iowa Arts Council Individual Artist Grant (2021/22), J.J. Neiman-Brown Grant (2022), Stanley International Travel Award (2022), and an Arts and Humanities Initiative Award (2023). Her dance films have been shown at Lincoln Center Dance for Camera, EnCore: Dance on Film, Reutlingen Museum, Iowa International Dance Festival, RAD Dance Fest, and Bejing International Dance Video Festival.