MIRIAM BARBOSA

Contemporary Dancer, Teacher & Choreographer, she holds an BA in Architecture & Urbanism from the University of Fine Arts of Sao Paulo, Brazil and an MS in Architecture, Health & Design from NYIT.  She is a former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company and a faculty member at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and Alvin Ailey School.

ZOOM Links (Recorded classes) available: Links to any of Miriam's GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® Dancer Tower Zoom classes are available to purchase.

Media and Press

Read the performances review

Dance Enthusiast Audience Review

Miriam Barbosa Dance & Dzul Dance present TRANSCENDING & BLISS

Danceinforma Review

Miriam Barbosa returns to the theater in ‘Transcending’ at New York Live Arts

Past and upcoming performances:

Video Interviews

ETV Interviews with Miriam

Miriam's interview for the local TV channel

Testimonials

"Maple Leaf Rag and Catharsis, The South Carolina Contemporary Dance Company, led by Miriam Barbosa, is a dance group that should be watched. Barbosa's choreography - the sensual movements, the expression in form - are incredible, breathtaking. I hope to see more pieces by her."

- Otis R. Taylor Jr., The State - 2009

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"A stunning artistic collaboration of dance, art, music and poetry!!! I did feel as if I entered another realm — a world of luminous beauty!"

- Christina Cardosi, The Dance Enthusiast, Audience Review

"The SC Contemporary Dance Company (SCCDC) raised the bar for dance in Columbia. The company’s founder and artistic director Miriam Barbosa deserves at least four curtain calls for assembling an amazing palette of talented dancers, all of whom excelled...."

- Free Times Newspaper

"Divine goddess flight
On Earth, the animal self
Craves to reunite"

- The Dance Enthusiast, Audience Review

"Miriam Barbosa, architect of muscles and emotions..."

- The State Newspaper, 2010

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"If only I lived in Charleston, or Greenville I could be mesmerized by Miriam Barbosa's contemporary dance company."

- Marvin Chernoff, President, South Carolina Contemporary Dance Company