Miriam King is an independent Choreographer, Dancer and Live Artist. After graduating with a BA (Hons.) Degree in Fine Art and Theatre, she commenced her professional performance career in 1984. This moved from theatre through to dance, and in more recent years, live art and film. In the last decade many of her unique performance works, projects and choreographies have received financial support from her Regional Arts Board, South East Arts.

In 1990 Mim received an Arts Council training bursary enabling her to train and work with Anton Adasinsky and his Russian performance company Derevo at their former studio in Leningrad, Russia. She has received further training bursaries to study Butoh dance with various international teachers such as Charlotta Ikeda, Masaki Iwana and Kim Itoh. Also training bursaries to train in Dance Film as a choreographer on courses led by Peter Anderson, Miranda Pennel and Philippe Decoufle.

In 1992 Mim founded the performance company Raukus Mir and received South East Arts funding to create The Circle Project which was performed at Gallery H, Kostelec near Prague, Czechoslavakia. Further funding enabled her to create many performances such as Maraluna Cabinet (1994), The Quickening and The Beach Project (1994).

Mim has received commissions from Chisenhale Dance Space, London. Her work We Straddle co-created with Barnaby O'Rorke has been included in the ICA National Review of Live Art. She has created several performances in Germany, such as Faith for the Berlin Congress of Visual and Performance Art. Also work for gallery spaces such as Knaack Gallery, Dock 11 and die KulturBrauerei, all in Berlin.

In November 2000 she presented her live work Blue Moon at Lullabies: Performance, Sound and Vision Festival held at Kunstwerk, Berlin.

In Summer 1999 she was one of 14 International choreographers to be invited to Ex...it! Butoh Symposium held at Schloss Broellin, Eastern Germany. Her work made there was toured to Szczecin, Poland.

Most significantly, as a choreographer Mim was awarded the first South East Dance Agency Dance for Camera commission. This resulted in the Dance Film Dust, made in collaboration with film-maker Anthony Atanasio. Since its premiere in the 1998 Brighton Festival, Dust has been screened world-wide, at places such as Clement-Ferrand 1999 Film Festival, DFA, Lincoln Centre, New York and Videodanse 2000, Pompidou Centre, Paris. Dust shared the Grand Prize Award at the IMZ International Dance Screen Festival 1999 winning Best Screen Choreography category.

In May 2000 Mim travelled to Sydney, Australia to give a presentation on Dance / Film at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with Swiss film maker Pascal Magnin. This trip also involved her taking part in Australia's first Dance Film festival ReelDance. The year 2000 has also brought her an Arts Council Year of the Artist residency commission for her idea The Fountain Project.

In May 2001 Mim completed her Dance for the Camera film commission Fountain made with Margaret Williams, and funded by BBC2 / ACE. She has recently attended VideoTanz in Essen, Germany as one of 12 invited International participants under the guidance of Philippe Decoufle.

In 2001 Mim also took part in Exit-Festival at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland, and more recently has returned from The People's Republic of China where she was an invited artist at Open Art Live Art Festival held in Szechuan Province.

"I continue to see myself as a visual artist working with the visual image through the medium of Butoh-inspired Dance, Live Art & Film. A constant objective is to create sensitive and accessible work that crosses many boundaries to reveal a strong and emotive visual image, often using dreams and the invisible as a starting point."

"Themes in my work include dreams, fears ... the sense of feeling apart: isolation and wishing to make a connection; to find a bridge between the worlds (the seen and unseen, the inner and the outer) ... personal faith and communication, to find that place, that "home" where there is resolution.

I have often used the image of the form of a mermaid in my work to symbolise a connection between the everyday world and the dream world, the surface world and the emotional inner world, symbolised by water. The potential of being able to live and travel between the two..."