Sameena Mitta is artistic director of dance-theater company MeenMoves and its outreach program MadHops. Mitta was a 2022/23 Artist in Residence at 92NY Harkness Dance Center, a NJPAC Choreography Fellow 2019-2022, and received a 2023 Choreographic Fellowship award from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has presented works at Little Island, 92nd Street Y, NJPAC, BAM Fisher, Americas Society, Ailey Studio Theatre, Martha Graham Theatre, Judson Church, Marymount Manhattan College, and many other venues around NYC and around the world. Mitta has produced live events including International Women’s Day of Dance and co-produced international digital events with 1014 Space For Ideas. Mitta created an intergenerational dance film Bilateral Quadrennium and the 10-year site-specific german dance film project Morals in Motion. Mitta earned with distinction the Cecchetti Society’s teaching Diploma and a MA in Dance Creation from Université du Québec à Montréal focusing on Movement Intervention for South Asian survivors of domestic violence. Under Mitta’s artistic direction, MeenMoves explores questions of identity, focusing on the unique perspectives of those who check “none-of-the-above”, to create socially relevant, quirky, highly-technical dance-theater works for stage and film. Mitta advocates for diversity in dance and has sat on multiple dance juries for granting agencies in Canada and the USA. As Artistic Advisor at the Harkness Dance Center, Sameena built several scholarship programs at the 92NY and was the founding mentor for the Recanati-Kaplan scholars in dance. She is on faculty at Marymount College, the Limón Institute, and Impulstanz with Zvi Gotheiner.