Meet Fast Forward Presenter >> Mira Treatman

What is your Big Idea for Philadelphia?

Performance in Sacred Spaces, An Insider's Perspective 

For nearly the entirety of my career, I have worked in historic buildings creatively repurposed for performing arts companies. I have a deep respect for the movement toward creative reuse and the avoidance demolition, but I've learned over the years some of the challenges that come with the territory. I would like to share what I as an artist, producer, and arts manager have done to bypass some of those roadblocks in order to make the buildings and the art itself accessible to as many folks as possible. I am a huge believer in historic preservation. I hope that in the future we as Philadelphia artists can be civically engaged together as we protect our treasured buildings and reuse them for our creative entrepreneurship. 

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Mira Treatman is a dance-theatre artist born and raised in Philadelphia. She creates performances stemming from experimental research. Described by Julius Ferraro in thINKingDANCE as “not graceful,” she works to reframe what dancing bodies mean on stage, screen, and site. Her work has been presented at Dixon Place, Goldilocks Gallery, the Sandy Spring Museum, and Glasshouse. She has performed in works by and with Sylvain Emard, Irina Varina, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Headlong, and Teatro Linea de Sombra/Cie Carabosse. Her work has been supported by Arts Letters & Numbers, LANDING at Gibney with Miguel Gutierrez, Earthdance E|MERGE, 954 Dance Movement Collective, the Knight Foundation/National Center for Choreography, Akron, and the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation in partnership with Small but Mighty Arts. Alongside her creative projects, she works in general management, production, and financial management at organizations including Headlong, Leah Stein Dance Company, and Earthdance. Mira is also a writer and editor at ThinkingDance.net.