regina miranda .

Regina Miranda, MSc, CMA is a Theater Director/Choreographer, Movement Signature Analyst, and Arts & Culture Advocate. She is the Founding Artistic Director of the Regina Miranda & ActorsDancers Company (1980-present) in Rio de Janeiro and the former CEO/Director of Arts & Culture of the world prestigious Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, LIMS NYC.

Miranda's knowledge of rhythms, complex behavior, spatial configuration, and collective work is core to every project that she creates and/or participates. Interweaving a strong artistic career with intense activities as cultural leader, she accumulates over 40 years of experience in the performing arts, and more than 20 years directing cultural institutions in Brazil and in the US.

In Rio, the work with the Regina Miranda & ActorsDancers Co. is her treasured artistic territory.. She created over 40 full-night performances and numerous site-specific and interactive plays for the company, being the recipient of more than 10 major national and international awards.   

Fostering human creative potential leads Miranda to work and lecture internationally, identifying cultural patterns, mentoring people in career choices, and sharing expertize in processes that involve arts and cultural transformation. Her passion for the LABAN Institute - the place where many years ago she discovered she could be both an artist and a cultural leader -, led her to divide residence between Rio and NYC for 19 years, in order to collaborate in shaping an institution where everyone could find paths for being who they want to be. At the Institute, in addition to set the vision and strategies for the organization, she was the curator 04 long-term successful artistic programs: MOSAIC; Dance Performance Atelier Award; Spring Forward; and Moving Dialogues.

Miranda also enjoys collaborating with playwrights, actors, dancers, musicians, and directors in film, theater, opera, and television. Since 2008, she has been a constant collaborator of the Lacanian psychoanalyst/dramaturg Antonio Quinet, staging and/or choreographing most of his plays in London, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Rio.

She wrote 03 academic books, including her personal approach to the Laban System – Body-Space Connections: A geophilosophy of the body in movement” (2008) - several plays, and numerous conferences and essays. She was the Editor of Movement News, the online magazine of the LABAN Institute and, in 2012, organized the book “Culture as Fourth Pillar of Development”, which focused on the role of the arts in the sustainable development of cities.

Miranda had her initial training in Ballet, Theater, Contemporary Dance, and Music in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. In New York she completed her BA in Dance Theory, at SUNY/Empire State College, then became a CMA by the Laban/Bartenieff Institute, LIMS® NYC, and earned a MSc by GCU/ Ken Blanchard School of Business, with a focus on "Processes of Cultural Transformation". She lives and works both in Rio and in NYC, and works internationally.