Director
LAURA GORENSTEIN MILLER is the founder, choreographer and Artistic Director of Helios Dance Theater, a Los Angeles-based contemporary dance company. She has a BFA in choreography from CalArts where she was selected to attend the Laban Center in London for an intensive study in Choreographic theory. Miller has premiered her work at venues such as The Joyce Theater and Lincoln Center in New York, The Royal Opera House in London, UCLA’s Royce Hall and Schoenberg Hall, The Getty Center, USC’s Bovard auditorium, The Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre in Southampton, Bermuda and Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica, to name a few. Her work has been set on ABT, ABT 2, The Milwaukee Ballet, Bodytraffic and CalArts. Ms Miller has received many awards for her choreography, most notably she was the only choreographer from the United States to be selected to participate in Genesis, the Milwaukee Ballet’s international Choreographic competition. Miller’s commercial credits include the choreography for the dance scenes in the Oscar nominated film Puss In Boots,the animated film Madagascar 3 and an episode of Parenthood for their final season.