Leila Mire

Leila Mire (she/her) is a researcher, curator, community organizer, choreographer, dancer educator, writer, and incoming PhD student at UC Berkeley. A graduate of George Mason University and the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble, she has performed with various dance companies and creates solo work. Her choreography has been featured in publications like the New York Times and Washington Post. In addition to writing for ThINKingDANCE and the Decolonizing Dance Writing International Exchange Cohort, she teaches Middle Eastern and contemporary dance and is a community organizer for Palestinian rights. Read more about her at leilamiredance.com or at @leila.mire on Instagram.

Title of Project

What’s the Point

Description of Project

This project considers points from varied standpoints to philosophically grapple with the ways we approach social movements and viewpoints at large

Project Inspiration

“What’s the Point” is less of a thesis driven work and more of wandering through the limitations we have when debating the best next steps to take (in whatever form that might be.) The project was inspired by frustrations and misgivings I have toward representative politics and current political conversations/organizing efforts I’ve been engaged in recently.

Areas of Academic Interest

Dance, Anticolonial work, sound, biopolitics