Mira Ur­bas­sek is a con­tem­pora­ry dance per­for­mer and tea­cher cur­r­ent­ly en­rol­led in the MA CoDE in Frank­furt, whe­re she ex­plo­res the in­ter­sec­tion of mo­ve­ment and so­ci­al en­ga­ge­ment. Ori­gi­nal­ly from Ger­ma­ny she has spend most of her time stu­dy­ing dance in Bar­ce­lo­na.

Du­ring her time in Spain, she par­ti­ci­pa­ted in two dis­tinct pro­grams that al­lo­wed her to con­cen­tra­te on con­tem­pora­ry dance tech­ni­ques, im­pro­vi­sa­ti­on, part­ne­ring, body per­cus­sion, as well as thea­ter and dance-thea­ter (Va­ri­um, 2020-2022).
Fol­lo­wing two ye­ars of in­ten­si­ve trai­ning Mira was ac­cep­ted in the young com­pa­ny Free­bo­dies (2022-2024). Here she had the chan­ce to work with na­tio­nal and in­ter­na­tio­nal ar­tists such as Na­di­ne Gerspa­cher, Nico Ric­chi­ni, Rob Hay­den (a.o.) which en­ri­ched her un­der­stan­ding of what dance can be.
Being in­vol­ved in cho­reo­gra­phic group and solo pro­ces­ses in and out­si­de of the for­ma­ti­on she has de­epe­ned her know­ledge of crea­ti­on and trans di­sci­pli­na­ry art work, per­forming at Fes­ti­vals in Spain, Fran­ce, Ita­ly and Ger­ma­ny.

In 2022 she also star­ted gi­ving clas­ses to ama­teurs as well as (pre) pro­fes­sio­nal dan­cers. In dif­fe­rent work­shop for­mats she put a lot of fo­cus on brin­ging peop­le tog­e­ther through mo­ve­ment de­spi­te dif­fe­rent back­grounds and ex­pe­ri­en­ces in dance. Here she has worked tog­e­ther with Anna Llum­bard (ES), Anke Hardt (DE) and Isée Via­la (FR).
Many of her pro­jec­ts have fo­cu­sed on en­ga­ging young peop­le with po­li­ti­cal to­pics. Mira be­lie­ves it’s es­sen­ti­al to co-crea­te ide­as, opi­ni­ons, and mo­ve­ments with the par­ti­ci­pants ra­ther than im­po­sing her own. This col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve ap­proach en­cou­ra­ges the de­ve­lop­ment of in­clu­si­ve, par­ti­ci­pato­ry and de­mo­cra­tic ways of thin­king and do­ing, viewing dance not just as so­me­thing that stays in the stu­dio but as a pra­xis of so­ci­al en­ga­ge­ment that can be ap­p­lied to dif­fe­rent con­texts.

This is also vi­si­ble in her own ar­tis­tic work, whe­re she tack­les so­ci­al and po­li­ti­cal to­pics such as the cli­ma­te cri­ses, the chan­ge of so­cie­tal un­der­stan­ding of de­mo­cra­cy and the shift to the right. Most re­cent she has crea­ted her solo „past winds“ which she per­for­med in Bar­ce­lo­na (Free­zo­ne) and Kas­sel (Kör­per­stür­me Fes­ti­val). While get­ting in­spi­red form the dai­ly life and its mo­ve­ment Mira se­ar­ches the ab­sur­di­ty and un­der­stands dance as a way to open spaces to in­itia­te a dia­log bet­ween peop­le.