mikah simone akerib (she/they)is an Arab-American dance artist. Her work navigates holding her many identities and researches the generational impacts of Westernization and the displacement of the sexualized body among the women and queer folks within her family. mikah’s work is grounded in the resiliency practice of falling in love/love/loving as a way of world-building and disarming oppressive systems collectively. Her practice I'm the Love of Your Life emulates her work in improvisation as a practice of presence, sensation, reflection, and action. mikah has performed her work at LakeStudios, Cannonball Festival, Philly Fringe Festival, Leah Stein: The Art Room Studio, and with BAX EmergeNYC at Abrons Art Center. She has worked in collaboration with The Yard, Shana Crawford, Samira Mendoza, CHAIA, among others.

mikah studied at Freie Universität  and Bennington College where she received her BA in Dance and Choreography. She has had the opportunity to study with artists such as David Thompson, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Hilary Clark, Miguel Gutierrez, Eleanor Bauer, David Brick, Jungwoong Kim, Ishmael Houston Jones, Terry Creach,  Jen Kidwell, Michelle Boule, Russell Stuart Lilie, and Stuart Shugg. Mikah has performed in works by Elena Demyanenko, Dana Reitz, Roxanne Steinberg and Oguri. She has collaborated and performed in work by The Moving Architects, Brenna Mosser, Jesse Keller Jason, Abby Bender, The Yard, and The Naked Stark.

mikah has been in residence at Double Edge Theatre (2020), Headlong Performance Institute (2022),  Brooklyn Arts Exchange EMERGENYC (2023), and DanceBarn Collective (2023) and LAKEStudios (2026). She is a co-organizer of Philly Dance Share and a co-founder of POPPY Collective.