Mikaila Ware is a New York City–based mover whose practice lives at the intersection of embodied performance, cultural advocacy, and care-centered administration. Rooted in dance as both a personal and collective language, her work explores how movement can be a tool for access, equity, and sustained community building.

As a longtime Company Member with Urban Bush Women, Mikaila contributes to performance practices grounded in social justice, lineage, and collective liberation. Her performance history also includes work with Davalois Fearon Dance, where rigor, musicality, and presence shape her approach to movement on and off the stage.

Beyond performance, Mikaila’s work extends into the infrastructures that support artists. She has held administrative and advocacy roles at BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Accessibility Fellow), and Dance/NYC, supporting equity-driven programming, accessibility initiatives, and artist services that center inclusion over extraction.

A graduate of Florida State University with a degree in Dance, Mikaila brings a research-informed, people-first approach to arts administration. Her practice is guided by a commitment to making creative spaces more accessible, sustainable, and accountable—ensuring that artists and communities are not only seen, but supported.

Through movement and systems work alike, Mikaila embodies RE.STANCE’s belief that care, culture, and resistance are inseparable.