Articles written by Leila Mire
Disrupting Invisible Choreography: Understanding Implicit Bias in Dance Education
July 24, 2023
Implicit bias exists in everything, everywhere, all the time…whether we acknowledge
Contrapunto: Dancing between Decolonization and Positive Ethics
August 3, 2021
Zapateo is a dance of wit, rhythm, and nuance. It employs
“An Act of Care”: A Conversation with Juan Felipe Miranda Medina
July 16, 2021
Juan Felipe Miranda Medina, a musician, dancer, and researcher from
Dancers, Let’s Talk Palestine Part 2: Ignorance is Bliss Until It Isn’t
June 20, 2021
This is Part 2 of this series. Read Part 1: Honor
Dancers, Let’s Talk Palestine Part 1: Honor the Dancestry
June 20, 2021
Progressive contemporary dance spaces preach “-isms and -centric” bullshit under
A “Life in Dance” or a White Lie
March 26, 2021
I’ll confess this article was pitched to discuss exploitative audition
Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough: Detroit, Jackson, and Racialized Economies
January 14, 2021
How do performance studies teach us how economies operate? How
Drag Dance: Relived, Reincarnated, Reimagined
September 7, 2020
The explosion of shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race offers greater visibility to
