Community engagement and social justice
Live performance, including puppetry, theater, dance, music, and spoken word poetry, etc.
Site-specific and integrated art
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Mita Ghosal
Mita Ghosal Dance Theatre
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Dance / Performance
Site-specificity determines materials used
About the Artist
Inspired and driven by the ways movement, emotion, and story intersect and collide in both revealing and unexpected ways, Mita Ghosal’s choreographic work utilizes tools from Contemporary Dance, Yoga, Theatre, and the Poetic and Revolutionary voices of her ancestors. Her work has been presented by many professional venues in New York City including the New York International Fringe Festival and the Current Showcase. In Los Angeles, her work has been presented through REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Highways Performance Space. In Pittsburgh, she has presented her original style of choreography through Wood Street Galleries, KST’s NewMoves Contemporary Dance Festival, and Freshworks Artists’ Residency.
Mita holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the Pennsylvania State University, an MFA in Dance/Choreography from UCLA, and is a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York. She has taught dance and yoga through many studios, colleges, and universities including Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, TX, Seton Hill, and Point Park University.
Photo by Joshua Bryant-Gainer
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- Certified Yoga Instructor, 2005;
- Certified Movement Analyst (Creative Movement), 2001
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, adults
Joined the Directory
November 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“I feel that sharing work within the public realm is my way of sharing my voice and my face and putting myself and those like me on the map.”
Mita Ghosal
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
