Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with LeilAwa - Season 4, Episode 53

LeilAwa [Leila Awadallah] (she/her) is a Palestinian American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based between Minneapolis and Beirut. She is the founder of Body Watani dance project and practice. Her works emerge from physicalized reflections and questions around the notion of body-as-homeland by integrating lands, ancestors, and embodied memories' with traditional Arabic dance forms and historical / present day engagement with both political and settler colonial impacts on bodies / movement / spaces / places. Her research, artistry and activism locates in the context of indigenous Palestine as well as more broadly in Mediterranean and SWANA regions.