Persistence High explores dance training - the time commitment, the discipline, the repetition, the joy, the community - through storytelling and personal anecdotes from the dancers. Dancers speak their own stories while traversing through highly rehearsed, militant choreography contrasting with open, unwieldy scores of improvisation.

Persistence High is the culmination of two years of research through the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in fulfilment of an MFA in dance. This ninety minute dance performance premiers March 20th and 21st at Attack Theatre at 7:30pm.

About the Artist(s): Miranda Nichols Braseth is a Pittsburgh based dancer, teaching artist, and emerging choreographer. Her work has been shown at Attack Theatre, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, and Salon Series with Shana Simmons Dance. Driven by her desire to expose the effort and labor that goes into achieving the joy and elation of movement, Miranda’s work ventures into the repetitive and athletic nature of dance. Always concerned with highlighting the dancers’ agency and positionality in the work, Miranda’s choreography often utilizes text and storytelling to bring audiences closer to the dancers themselves. Miranda has performed in many original works by Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza, co-founders and artistic directors of Attack Theatre, as well as works by Antonio Brown, Christian Warner, Gillian Walsh, Toneta Akers-Toler, and Donald Laney. Miranda has also been a featured dancer in collaborations with the Pittsburgh Opera and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. With a wide-ranging teaching background from the K-12 classroom, to pre-professional studios, to collegiate masterclasses, and community movement workshops, Miranda strives to center the doer in all teaching settings. She has a BFA in Dance and BA in English Literature from Marymount Manhattan College.