mikah simone akerib (she/they) is an Arab-American dance artist.  mikah is descended from Iraqi Jews, Polish Jews, and mystics. Her work interrogates and illuminates the impacts of  Zionism upon folks of Arab jewish descent and the cultural and ethnic cleansing that followed. She questions the generational impacts of Westernization and the displacement of the sexualized body among the women and queer folks within her family. She holds, forgets, remembers the ongoing devotion to collect the pieces that must be remembered. Through improvisation and collaboration mikah moves through humor and strangeness while falling in love over and over again as she sees dances holding the space for new possibilities, defiance, world building, and collective liberation. mikah has spent 20 years immersed in the growtowski method and continued to study dance and choreography at Bennington College. 

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 Vernice Miller, Michelle Boulé, Elena Demyanenko, Dana Reitz, David Thompson, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, David Brick, Jungwoong Kim, and Terry Creach. Mikah has performed in works by Elena Demyanenko, Dana Reitz, Roxanne Steinberg and Oguri. She has worked in collaboration with The Yard, Shana Crawford, Samira Mendoza, CHAIA, and Soul Lee amongst others.

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. 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 and recurring teacher with Philly Dance Share and a co-founder of POPPY Collective.