Mersiha Mesihovic, hailed as the rising NYC choreographer by
the
theworlddances.com is a Bosnian/Swedish dance-artist & the
founder/artistic director of
CIRCUITDEBRIS (circuitdebris.org), a dance company and a space
for
Interdisciplinarity -
Radical Dance - Community Engagement.
Mesihovic received her training at Balettakademien in Stockholm,
Sweden, Sarajevo
National Ballet School in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iwanson
International School for
Contemporary Dance in Munich, Germany and holds a BFA in
Dance
& Choreography from
California Institute of the Arts. She has had the honor of dancing
in
works by
contemporary icons as Ohad Naharin, Colin Connor, Trisha Brown,
Rami Beer, and has
collaborated closely with such intrepid artists as Karen Bernard,
Reggie Wilson & Jaamil
Kosoko. In addition she has worked with composer/saxophonist
James Brandon Lewis.
Mesihovic was the resident artist at the Choreo Collision/Danza
Venezia (2012), Atlantic
Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach in Florida, (2015), Earth
Dance in Massachusetts,
(2016). Her work is has been presented internationally and
received
support from New
Dance Alliance and New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently,
Mesihovic resides in New
York where she is actively developing her unique Movement
Method
EMBODIMENT and
teaches at Universities, Dance Centers, and Dance Companies in
US
and abroad including
Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg & Tshwane University
of
Technology in South
Africa, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers in Philadelphia, Gibney Dance:
Agnes
Varis Performing Arts
Center and Williamsburg Movement & Arts Center in New York.
