Justice Miles

Justice Miles is a biracial dance artist, choreographer and scholar. Miles holds an MFA in Choreography/Dance from the University of New Mexico and a BA in Dance from Colorado College and has had the opportunity for additional summer study of dance at the Albuquerque Flamenco Festival and Ballet Hispanico's Choreolab summer program in NYC. Her choreographic works include 'Soul of Flowers' as the Music, Race and Social Justice Artist in Residence for the Metropolitan State University of Denver, 'Floral Tea' as a Create Award Art Gym Denver Artist in Residence (excerpt performed at the Collegium of African Diaspora Dance Conference), and Ink on Cotton (excerpts performed as an emerging choreographer at Dr. Meira Goldberg's conference 'The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots.') Miles has presented her research on Josephine Baker and Carmen Amaya at the international conference 'Ritmos Transátlanticos en Música, Canto y Baile' in Veracruz, Mexico, virtually at the Front Row Member Appreciation Week of the International Association of Blacks, and virtually for a Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium. Miles has served as a visiting assistant professor of dance at Cottey College and an adjunct artist in residence/rehearsal director/co-artistic director for a performance celebrating African American choreographers and composers at Washington and Lee University.