Biography
Mita Ghosal explores emotional landscapes and their intersections with both abstract and literal expressions of the moving body. Informed by her studies into Contemporary Dance, Yoga, Laban, Body-Mind Centering and Theatre, her movement vocabulary strives to be deeply human while existing somewhere in between everyday gestural reality and artful poetic manifestations.
Mita’s choreography and performance work has been presented by many professional venues in New York City including The Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Mulberry Street Theatre, New York Film Institute, the Joseph Papp Public Theatre and the New York International Fringe Festival. In Los Angeles her work has been presented through REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Highways Performance Space, Crazy Space, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Barnsdall Arts Park, Studio A Dance and the David Henry Hwang Theatre.
She holds a BA in Theatre Arts with an Interdisciplinary Focus in Dance through the Pennsylvania State University, an MFA in Dance/Choreography from UCLA, and is a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.
While in New York and Los Angeles she was also blessed with the opportunity to study with many master teachers in the areas of Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary Jazz, Choreography and Somatic Movement Styles including Vicky Shick, Donna Uchizono, Barbara Mahler, Laurie Devito, Katiti King, and Holly Johnson.
In 2006-2007 she studied the Ashtanga Yoga System in Mysore, India with the style’s late founder Sri K Pattabhi Jois. Since then she has been fortunate to share what she has learned about this beautiful style of yoga to students in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Also since returning to Pittsburgh, she has taught yoga at School House Yoga, X Shadyside and Carnegie Mellon University.
Mita’s choreography and performance work has been presented by many professional venues in New York City including The Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Mulberry Street Theatre, New York Film Institute, the Joseph Papp Public Theatre and the New York International Fringe Festival. In Los Angeles her work has been presented through REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Highways Performance Space, Crazy Space, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Barnsdall Arts Park, Studio A Dance and the David Henry Hwang Theatre.
She holds a BA in Theatre Arts with an Interdisciplinary Focus in Dance through the Pennsylvania State University, an MFA in Dance/Choreography from UCLA, and is a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.
While in New York and Los Angeles she was also blessed with the opportunity to study with many master teachers in the areas of Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary Jazz, Choreography and Somatic Movement Styles including Vicky Shick, Donna Uchizono, Barbara Mahler, Laurie Devito, Katiti King, and Holly Johnson.
In 2006-2007 she studied the Ashtanga Yoga System in Mysore, India with the style’s late founder Sri K Pattabhi Jois. Since then she has been fortunate to share what she has learned about this beautiful style of yoga to students in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Also since returning to Pittsburgh, she has taught yoga at School House Yoga, X Shadyside and Carnegie Mellon University.