Justice Miles

Instagram: @justice.miles

Justice Miles is interested in creating experimental choreographic and scholarly work exploring the connections between contemporary dance, flamenco and blackness. Miles is currently a visiting assistant professor of dance at Cottey College and has been a visiting adjunct professor at Washington and Lee University. Miles's choreographic work includes: 'Soul of Flowers' (presented as the Music, Race and Social Justice Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan State University of Denver), 'Floral Tea' (created as the Create Award Art Gym Denver artist in residence, excerpt performed at the Collegium of African Diasporan Dance Conference), and 'Ink on Cotton' (excerpt performed as an emerging choreographer for Meira Goldberg's conference 'The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots' at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC). Miles’s scholarship includes her article "The Modern Synthesis of Josephine Baker and Carmen Amaya," edited by Meira Goldberg, Antoni Piza, Jessica Gottfried and Raquel Paraíso published by Música Oral de Sur, which she presented at the virtual Front Row Member Appreciation Week at the International Association of Blacks in Dance and the virtual New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium hosted by the National Institute of Flamenco. Miles has an MFA in Choreography from University of New Mexico and a BA in Dance from Colorado College and has done additional summer study at the Albuquerque Flamenco Festival and Ballet Hispánico's Choreolab Summer program in NYC.