Miranda McGovern is 24 years old and is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University.  She is originally from Henderson, Nevada where she trained and danced competitively with The Dance Zone for fourteen years.  Dance has been a significant part of her life since she was three years old. Throughout the years, she has participated in various dance performances and competitions.

            As passionate that she is about performing, she also has a strong interest for teaching in the dance world.  Before she left for college, she had the opportunity to teach and assist her dance teachers with children of varying ages. Additionally, she was chosen as an ACE assistant for the dance competitions Adrenaline and Revive.  During her senior year in high school, she worked the competitions, gaining first-hand experience of behind the scenes dance competition production. In the immersive position, she worked backstage and assisted the faculty during convention classes.

            During her time at Ohio State she participated in numerous shows as a performer, choreographer, and backstage help.  She has performed and trained in works and practices ranging from Cunningham to African techniques.  She has performed in pieces choreographed by Daniel Roberts, Crystal Perkins and Countess Winfrey.  In addition to faculty work, she has also performed in and choreographed student run concerts.  While at OSU, participating in numerous composition classes inspired her to perform a self-choreographed work to share her story and life experiences.  Improvisation has been a seminal concept of her dance career and continues to serve as inspiration behind aspirations to be a performer in company works and works of her own.

         In addition to training at OSU, she has trained with companies Ate9, Deeply Rooted Dance, Groundworks Dance Theater Cultivate Dance Project and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.  She is currently training in Chicago, IL

            To further cultivate her interest in teaching, she is currently starting to do research on how movement and improvisation can benefit people with disabilities.  She wants to start teaching people with disabilities about improvisation and contact improvisation and how it can open up a creative outlet for the disabled especially those who are nonverbal