About

LAURA GORENSTEIN MILLER is a choreographer described by the LA Times as "a bright, distinguished voice in dance." Miller has premiered work at venues worldwide, including The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, The Royal Opera House, UCLA's Royce Hall, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, the Alberta Jubilee Theaters, The Getty Center, The Getty Villa, and The Broad Stage. Her choreography has been set on American Ballet Theater, American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company, CalArts, The Milwaukee Ballet, and Bodytraffic, among others. Miller has choreographed numerous animated films, including the Oscar-nominated Puss In Boots, Madagascar 3, The Addams Family, the Netflix feature Trouble, and Rise of the Guardians. She recently completed a project with original music by composer Alan Menken for Skydance and is currently working on the animated feature film Smurfs, featuring Rihanna as Smurfette. Miller has been featured at several academic institutions, including as a Guest Lecturer at Brown University, a speaker at USC Kaufman School of Dance, and a Guest Artist at CalArts. She has also choreographed augmented and virtual reality projects for New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival, Microsoft, and the Future of Storytelling. Miller is the founder of Helios Dance Theater, a graduate of CalArts, and studied choreography at the Laban Center in London.