Ishita Mili

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Ishita Mili is a Bengali-American director, choreographer, educator, and iconoclast. She founded IMGE (”image”) as a dance company that unravels cultural roots to thread together global stories with artists of diverse backgrounds. IMGE’s holistic movement vocabulary encompasses dynamic imagery, mudra storytelling, and percussive footwork to confront social and cultural constructs. Ishita’s work has reached inter/national stages (New Victory Theater, Lincoln Center, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival), commercial campaigns (NBC Universal, IndoWarehouse), and theater (Broadway Bares, Asolo Rep’s Hair). Ishita was awarded Artist of Exceptional Merit by the Asian American Arts Alliance and has taught at Princeton, Duke, Rutgers, and internationally. IMGE was most recently awarded a CUNY Tribeca production residency for their original show (no)man, and Ishita was selected into the LabWorks 2024-25 cohort at New Victory Theater.