Miro Magloire, the founder and Artistic Director of New Chamber Ballet, has created over one hundred ballets in his signature sculptural style. Magloire and his company have broken many boundaries in classical dance, from using an in-the-round presentation for all performances, to fielding its singular, all-female company of virtuosic dancers. As former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay wrote, "It's heartening to see work so focused on the meeting of dance and music,” lauding Miro as “refreshingly original,” in work that former New York Post dance critic Leigh Witchel called “bracing, daring, and calmly radical.” Trained as a composer as well as a choreographer, Magloire is known for his ground-breaking collaborations with musicians and special affinity for cutting-edge contemporary music, as well as for the no-frills, unaffected aesthetic he has pioneered with his company. Recent commissions include works for the New York Choreographic Institute, the American Academy in Rome, and the Sarasota Opera among others. In 2017 he was one of 25 arts leaders nationally selected for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Leadership Fellows Program. Magloire’s works have also been commissioned by Joyce/SoHo, Roulette, the Moving Sounds and Sonic Music Festivals in NYC, the Sarasota Opera, and the Center for Faith and Work NYC, and performed at the Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage, Ailey/Citigroup Theater, the Center for Performance Research, the Clark Institute, and Bramante's Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, among other venues. He has collaborated with the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Momenta String Quartet, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo and Ensemble Sospeso, and the vocal ensembles Ekmeles, Variant 6, and AuditivVokal. Born in Munich, Germany, Magloire studied composition with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne Conservatory of Music before settling in New York City, where his most influential dance teachers were Kazuko Hirabayashi and Willy Burmann. A recipient of several O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation Grants, Magloire was profiled in a 2008 full-page article in the Sunday NY Times. He has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Media Lab, New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, and The Manhattan School of Music.