Miko Fogarty

Miko Fogarty, who was born in London, has gained international acclaim for her dance. In 2013, she won the Gold Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow. She received Silver Medal in 2014 and Bronze Medal in 2012 at the Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria. She received bronze at the Youth America Grand Prix finals in New York in 2010 and gold medals in the World Ballet Competition in 2009 and 2011.

Fogarty attended the Royal Ballet School’s International Summer Program three times between 2008 and 2010, where she performed solo parts in the final performance and got the Commendation Award each year. She has also received scholarships at the San Francisco Ballet School, American Ballet Theater, Kirov Academy of Ballet, and Rock School for summer intensives. Miko joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2015. She was also asked to return to the Chula Vista Ballet to reprise the part of Sugar Plum Fairy for the third year in a row. She was one of six dancers featured in “First Position,” an award-winning ballet documentary.

Fogarty is active on social media, having over 290,000 Instagram followers and 20 million YouTube views, and was named one of Dance Spirit Magazine’s “Most Influential People of 2011.” She began teaching in 2016, and her courses have taken her to Thailand, Japan, and Australia. Fogarty is presently a UC Berkeley undergraduate studying in Integrative Biology and working at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center exploring therapeutics for malignant brain tumors.