Myriam Simon was born in Montreal, Canada. She attended the Ecole Supérieure de Danse du Québec from 1992 until 1994. Subsequently, she visited the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto, where she completed her ballet education in 1998.
During her career as a dancer, Myriam Simon has already performed with the Guangzhou Ballet in China (1999/00), the Leipzig Ballet (2000/01), the Ballet of the State Opera in Hanover (2001/02), the Royal Ballet of Flanders (2002/04) and the Portuguese Companhia National de Bailado in Lisbon (2004/05).
Myriam Simon joined the Stuttgart Ballet at the beginning of the 2005/06 season in the Corps de ballet. She was promoted to Demi Soloist in 2007/08 and to Soloist in 2008/09. In 2011/12 she was promoted to Principal Dancer.
REPERTOIRE
Leading Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- Bravo Charlie (Marco Goecke)
- Corps (Hans van Manen): Second Pas de deux
- Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Blue
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Dulcinea, Mercedes, Queen of the Dryads
- Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián): Couple in Grey
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart): Ballerina
- Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Myrtha
- Goecke at the Chamber: The Nutkracker (Marco Goecke): Snow Fairy
- Hamlet (Kevin O’Day): Gertrud
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): M
- Krabat (Demis Volpi): Kantorka
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): one of the two Sylphs
- Las Hermanas (Sir Kenneth MacMillan): Angustias
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): Master of ceremonies
- Onegin (John Cranko): Tatjana
- Orlando (Marco Goecke): Princess Sasha
- Orphée et Euridice (Staging, Choreography: Christian Spuck)
- Othello (John Neumeier): Bianca, Emilia
- Poème de l’extase (John Cranko): Diva
- RED in 3. (Jorma Elo)
- Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Rosalind, Gypsy
- Siebte Sinfonie (Uwe Scholz)
- Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
- Song of my People Forest People – Sea (John Cranko): Pas de trois
- Ssss... (Edward Clug)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Big Swan, Princess of Spain, Townswoman
- swish (Demis Volpi)
- The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine): Third Theme
- The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): Lady
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Marguerite Gautier, Olympia
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Lilac Fairy, Emerald, the Prince’s Fiancee
- The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): female leading role
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Katharina
- The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe)
- Theme and Variations (George Balanchine): Demi Solo
- Yantra (Wayne McGregor)
Specially created Roles - Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck): sapphire
- Orlando (Marco Goecke): one allegory
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers- Fragrance (Emil Faski)
- Le Bal de Bals (Selatin Kara)
- palpable leers (Demis Volpi)
Solo Roles during her former engagements- Die Schöpfung
- Don Quixote
- Giselle
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss, after August Bournonville): First Sylph
- Serenade
- Sinfonieta (Jiří Kylián)
- The Nutcracker