Esraa Warda is New York's emerging dance artist and educator specializing in Algerian & Moroccan traditional dance forms. A child of the Algerian diaspora, Warda is a cultural warrior advocating for the representation & preservation of North African women-led dance traditions and the decolonization of euro-centricity, orientalism, and patriarchy in dance. Combining oral history, muscle memory and communal learning, Esraa Warda's performances, workshops and research brings communities around North African dance, and creates embodied archives of knowledge