Mersiha Mesihovic of UArts
Student

Dance (MFA)

Mersiha Mesihovic, founder & artistic director of CIRCUITDEBRIS - a space for interdisciplinarity, radical dance & community engagement, is a Bosnian-born dance artist and cultural organizer based in NYC. Mesihovic initiated CIRCUITDEBRIS in 2011 to formally conceptualize her collaboration with artists across disciplines and passion for community engagement. Her work has been presented internationally and received support from New Dance Alliance and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has collaborated closely with such intrepid artists as Karen Bernard, Reggie Wilson, Visnja Krzic, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and saxophonist/composer James Brandon Lewis. Mesihovic’s work is interested in human behavior and the infinite possibilities of the human body, challenging our perception of what is possible. Vocabulary of displacement and non-fixity of identity found in diasporic cultures, the trans-national position of her birth land Bosnia and Herzegovina and her experience as a refugee gives birth to her movement language and her ability to facilitate transgressive community spaces. Mesihovic is actively developing her unique movement practice/method M-BODYMENT interested in re-connecting us to our energetic body and an awareness of how we continuously create the space we exist in together. Mesihovic teaches at a wide range of institutions and cultural organizations in the US and abroad.

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