Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad is a half-Persian, half-Andalusian, first-generation artist raised Muslim in the U.S. Working at the intersection of dance, writing, and visual art, she treats the body as protest, archive, and mirror. Her practice moves through improvisation, magic realism, and embodied storytelling to excavate themes of migration, surveillance, femme experience, and collective humanism. Drawing on her diasporic lineages, Roya’s choreography and writing engage the present moment with rigor, tenderness, and curiosity. She holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College.
