Miriam Elaine Adams (née Weinstein; born January 29, 1944) is a dancer, choreographer, and dance archivist from Toronto. After performing with the National Ballet of Canada, she co-founded 15 Dance Laboratorium with her husband Lawrence Adams. It was the first theatre to present experimental dance in Toronto. In 1983, Miriam and Lawrence launched Encore! Encore! to document the works of six Canadian choreographers from the 1940s and 1950s, and in 1986 they launched a centre for archiving dance and publishing books called Arts Inter-Media Canada/Dance Collection Danse (DCD). Early life and training Miriam Adams was born in Toronto on January 29, 1944. She studied with Betty Oliphant and became a student at the National Ballet School in 1960, graduating in 1963. Early career and 15 Dance Lab From 1963 to 1969, Adams performed with the National Ballet of Canada as a member of the corps de ballet. While there she met her husband, principal dancer Lawrence Adams. After leaving the National Ballet of Canada, Adams taught at the Lois Smith School of Dance. In 1972, Adams and Lawrence formed a dance company called 15 Dancers which evolved into 15 Dance Lab, a 41-seat studio theatre in Toronto, and the first to present experimental dance in Toronto. The Adamses wanted to avoid the hierarchical structures experienced in ballet companies and instead promoted the independence of dancers representing various styles of dance. In 1974, Adams and Lawrence incorporated 15 Dance Lab as a not-for-profit charitable organisation. They received various grants for their organisation which allowed them to pay artists 80% of the box office revenue, plus a fee for performances. Choreographic works Adams' choreographic works contained humour, parody and satire of current events. Her first choreographic piece with 15 Dancers was, ode to yogurt on June 13, 1972. She choreographed Another Nutcracker in 1973, which parodied The Nutcracker. In 1975 she satirised the defection of Mikhail Baryshnikov from the Soviet Union in a video called Sonovovitch. In 1990, Adams choreographed and composed the score for So What’s This Got To Do With God Already? for Inde / 90 at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, a humorous perspective of Jewish culture featuring modern dance, ballet, ballroom, and basketball movements. Publishing and archiving From 1976 to 1978, Adams and Lawrence published the tabloid Spill, edited by Elizabeth Chitty. In 1979, they published a dance photography book with visual artist Lynn Rotin entitled Photographs Dance. From 1980