B.F.A. in Dance Performance, George Mason University's Honors College; M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University
Leila Mire (she/her) is a choreographer and researcher whose work examines the relationship between movement, power, and belonging. Her scholarship and creative practice focus on how dance participates in projects of nationalism, settler colonialism, and resistance, with particular attention to Palestine and its ongoing occupation. Drawing on performance studies, critical theory, and embodied research, she investigates the political work that movement performs in shaping collective identities, historical narratives, and claims to place. Across her work, choreography serves as both an analytic lens and a creative method for engaging questions of memory, representation, and liberation.