Mia Michaels Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up in a family of dancers; both her father and sister were dance teachers
• Has never danced professionally
• Started dancing when she was 3 and choreographing at 15
• Studied dance at New World School of the Arts in Miami
• Has choreographed dancers for Celine Dion's Las Vegas show A New Day, and for the Cirque du Soleil production Delirium
• Founded the New York-based dance company R
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• Was rumored to have cancer after shaving her head, though those rumors were dispelled
• She said, of her hair, that she "just felt the need to get rid of it
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