All starting with daily performances put on for her parents in the comfort of her living room, Alex Murphy has been dancing since she was three years old. She started her training at the Center for Ballet Arts from age 4-16 where she studied ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, and modern. During this time she was able to perform on the Wolftrap's stage for the International Children's Festival. At 15, she trained for 5 weeks at the Boston Ballet Summer Intensive, where she got to take classes from company members as well as explore the city. The next summer, she went to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for five weeks, where she was trained in ballet, modern, and dance improve/composition. That fall, she started training at Metropolitan School of the Arts, where she expanded her studies past ballet, pointe, tap, jazz and more into contemporary, and hip hop. She was a member of iMpulse, a youth jazz company. With this company she took trips up to New York to take classes at Broadway Dance Center with well-known choreographers. For the summer before her senior year she was accepted into the dance program for Governor's School at Radford. Later that summer, she took part in the Rockette's Summer Intensive. For her final recital, she played Jessie in Toy Story, singing, acting, and dancing within the same performance. Since coming to college she has managed to keep up with dance by pursuing the dance minor as well as being a dancer and choreographer in the student run club, The Virginia Dance Company. One of her goals is to be as holistic of a dancer as possible by immersing herself in new styles and learning more and more about the history of dance. She's incredibly thankful to be able to explore the arts as a whole more with the Miller Scholars. Looking to find a career in the rehabilitation of dancers through physical therapy, Alex hopes to continue her passion of dance throughout her life.