Loudoun Ballet Company

Maureen Miller - Artistic Director

Maureen Miller

Artistic Director

Mrs. Miller received her early dance training in Newcastle, Australia. She successfully completed all the Royal Academy examinations, including Solo Seal. Her training then continued on scholarship at Rosella Hightower Centre de Dance Classique in Cannes, France.

Her professional career began at the age of 18 with the Slovene National Ballet Company in Yugoslavia. While dancing with the Slovene National Ballet Company, she toured in France, Germany, Italy, and Austria. As a company member, she performed as guest artist and soloist with the Paris Opera Ballet in Cannes, France. After Yugoslavia, Ms. Miller traveled to the United States where she joined the Maryland Ballet Company in Baltimore. There, under the direction of Petrus Bosman, she performed as soloist and served as Ballet Mistress.

Now a resident of Loudoun County, Ms. Miller is an acclaimed choreographer and has been a valued and well-respected teacher in the metropolitan Washington area for many years. Her teaching experience includes The Maryland Youth Ballet, The Washington School of Ballet, The Joy of Motion Dance Center, Capital Ballet, and Arlington Center for Dance. She has owned and directed her own school and is the former Ballet Mistress to D.C. Contemporary Dance Theater.

Mrs. Miller was nominated and accepted a rare fourth time into Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2006-2007. She previously received this recognition honoring our nation's most respected teachers in 2000-2001, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006.

In addition to her work with the Loudoun Ballet Company, Ms. Miller is currently Director of the Ballet Department of the Loudoun School of Ballet in Leesburg, Virginia.

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2008-2009 Board of Directors

Steve Spaseff, Chair

Kim Fulham, Vice-Chair Production

Patricia Potts, Secretary

Cherilynne Piper, Treasurer

Chris Casuccio, Member-at-Large

Tricia Beisler

Nicholas Graham

Debra Hare

Larry King

Kirk Pierce

Kurt Reiter

Tempe Weinbach

Honorary Board Members

Paul Donovan

Helen Shuiling

Charles Wilkinson

Company Photographer

Corey Sundahl

Sheila Hoffmann-Robertson

Founder

The Loudoun Ballet Company was formed in 1978 by Sheila Hoffmann-Robertson so that her students at the Loudoun School of Ballet could have the opportunity to perform regularly in front of audiences, thereby developing a sense of theatricality as well as technique.

Productions of the Loudoun Ballet Company are partially supported by a grant from
the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.