Artistic Director

Lauded as "refreshingly original" by Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times, choreographer Miro Magloire is the founder and artistic director of New Chamber Ballet.

Magloire has created over one hundred ballets in his signature style for his company, all distinguished by sweeping elegance, a striking theatricality, and bold musical choices. "It's heartening to see work so focused on the meeting of dance and music,” Macaulay wrote in his Times review, “always you're aware of an intelligence at work that resists romantic cliché."

Known for his visionary collaborations with musicians - singers, violinists, pianists and large ensembles - Magloire has a special affinity for cutting-edge contemporary music, which has led him to work with many of today's leading composers.

Magloire was the subject of a 2008 full-page profile in the Sunday NY Times. His works have been commissioned by the New York Choreographic Institute, Joyce/SoHo, Roulette, the Moving Sounds and Sonic Music Festivals in NYC, the Sarasota Opera, Grace Farms Connecticut, and the American Academy in Rome, Italy; and performed at the Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage, Ailey/Citigroup Theater, the Center for Performance Research, the Museum of Art and Design, and Bramante's Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, among other venues. He has collaborated with the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Momenta Quartet, vocal ensembles Ekmeles and Variant 6, and, in addition, has created ballets for CelloPointe, Periapsis Music and Dance, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the State Academy of Dance in Cologne, Germany.

Born in Munich, Germany, Magloire started his career as a composer. At age 17 he won the “Forum of Young Composers Award” in North Rhine-Westphalia, and went on to study with Mauricio Kagel at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne, Germany.

After relocating to New York to study Modern Dance at the Ailey and Martha Graham Schools, where his teachers included Yung-Yung Tsuai and Kazuko Hirabayashi, and ballet with Wilhelm Burmann and Peff Modelski among others, he turned his attention to choreography and in 2004 founded New Chamber Ballet.

In 2017 he was one of 25 arts leaders nationally selected for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ (APAP) Leadership Fellows Program. He is a former board member and current member of the Advisory Council of 1014 - Space for Ideas.

Dancer

Anabel Alpert has danced professionally with The Sarasota Ballet, Ballet Austin, and the American Contemporary Ballet, performing featured roles in works by George Balanchine, Matthew Neenan and Sir Frederick Ashton. She graduated cum laude from Pennsylvania State University in 2023, earning her degree in Organizational Leadership. In 2022, Anabel founded the New Chamber Ballet Young Patrons Club to widen the company’s audience engagement. Before beginning her professional career, she graduated from Miami City Ballet’s Pre- professional program. This is her fifth season with New Chamber Ballet.

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Dancer

Megan Foley began her training at the International Ballet School in Colorado. Beginning in 2013, she studied at the San Francisco Ballet School under Patrick Armand, performing works by George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, and Helgi Tomasson. In 2017, Megan joined Oklahoma City Ballet’s Studio Company, where she performed featured roles in works by Robert Mills. Most recently, Megan was a member of New York Dance Project, where she performed in works by Gerald Arpino. This is her fifth season with New Chamber Ballet.

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Dancer

Nicole McGinnis began her training in Pasadena, California, going on to train at the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet in Los Angeles. She then joined the Graduate Program at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, where she had the opportunity to perform with the company and the school in works including those by George Balanchine, Terrence Orr, and Staycee Pearl. This is her third season with New Chamber Ballet.

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Dancer

Nominated by Pointe Magazine as Standout Performance of 2022, Amber has been a member of New Chamber Ballet for twelve seasons. She performed featured roles for The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Claudia Schreier & Company, and Emery LeCrone DANCE, and was a member of Boston Ballet and Richmond Ballet. Amber received her training in New York at The Dance Design School, the HARID Conservatory, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theater.

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Dancer

Rachele Perla grew up in West Boylston, MA, and received her early dance training at the Boston Ballet School before earning her BFA in Dance at Fordham University/The Ailey School. She has had the opportunity to perform works by George Balanchine, Mikko Nissinen, Alvin Ailey, Adam Barruch, Amy Hall Garner, and Robert Hill. This is her seventh season as a member of New Chamber Ballet.

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Dancer

Kayla Schmitt began dancing at Ballet Conservatory of Asheville at the age of three, and went on to study at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the Manhattan Youth Ballet. Most recently she danced in Ballet Chicago’s Studio Company. She has performed in works by George Balanchine, Durante Verzola, and Marcia Dale Weary. This is her second season with New Chamber Ballet.

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Violinist

Known for his sweet and “sumptuous tone” (New York Times), American-born Doori Na took up violin at the age of four and began his studies with Li Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In the fall of 2018, he made his debut with The San Francisco Symphony performing Bach’s Double Violin Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Currently living in New York City, Mr. Na plays with numerous ensembles around the city. He has played with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with tours in the US, Japan, and Europe performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Musiverien in Vienna. Mr. Na is also a member of Argento Chamber Ensemble performing works of living composers such as Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, and many more.

Mr. Na attended the Juilliard School with the Dorothy Starling and Dorothy Delay scholarships and holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree where he studied under Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Donald Weilerstein. He was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and was fortunate to play on a Guadagnini and Vuillaume violin from the Juilliard School’s prestigious violin collection. This is his twelfth season with New Chamber Ballet.

Costume Designer

Sarah Thea Craig is currently Assistant Costume Designer on Law & Order: SVU, Season 24. Previously she was Assistant Costume Designer on Nickelodeon’s The Really Loud House Season 1.

She has designed new works for Clubbed Thumb, The New Ohio, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Gibney Dance, American Dance Festival, Lake Tahoe Dance Collective and the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Designing with New Chamber Ballet since 2013, Sarah Thea’s costumes have played on stages around the US as well as Germany, Italy, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

Her passion for education led her to mentor students and design for Columbia University, Marymount Manhattan College, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, The New School, and AMDA College and Conservatory. Sarah Thea is honored to have served as a Teaching Artist with Roundabout Theatre Co. from 2016-2020.

Sarah Thea is continually humbled by the power of the human form, especially in opera and dance. Dramaturgy, sunlight and sculptural explorations feed her soul. She is obsessed with hair as a marker of passing time. MFA NYU/Tisch Design for Stage and Film.