Leila Awadallah is a dancer, choreographer, and community collaborator in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce and sometimes Beirut. She is the Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance project alongside her sister Noelle Awadallah. Her artistry holds Palestine at the center —rooting her embodiment in practices of resisting settler colonial occupation while invoking / conjuring / demanding Right of Return and cultural INTIFADA. Leila has received multiple fellowships: DanceUSA, McKnight, Jerome Hill, and Daring Dances. Her artistry is meaningfully impacted by her years working with Ananya Dance Theatre, Theater of Women of the Camp (Lebanon) and El-Funoun (Palestine). She is a recurring artist-in-residence at the Arab American National Museum (MI), Red Eye Theater (MN), and holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota.
