(Amsterdam, 1993) is a singer, songwriter and performer. Informed by the tradition of vocal jazz, she is drawn to narrative song and strong poetic and visual elements within music. During her time at HKU Utrecht Conservatory, she developed a fascination for the different ways in which the voice can function as an embodied instrument. Whether written, spoken or sung, Mira wields language to evoke deep and buried feelings with an earnest yet witty approach. More.
You can contact Mira by sending an email to bookingmirathompson@gmail.com. Mira's assistant Dina Mimi will respond to professional inquiries.
How can Crip Theory be used in the Dutch art landscape?
Mira did the voice narration of Iza Noticing Something by photographer and video-artist Anna Theunissen.
Mira wrote and performed in the multimedia installation Up in the Attic by Mikołaj Sobczak.
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Mira was one of the three performers in Khadija El Kharraz Alami's play: I Read a Book, Against The Loveless World, based on the book with the same title by Susan Abulhawa.
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“Neutrality is and will always be a performance, a pretending. We mustn’t forget that this performance is not possible for everyone. It is not within the reach of everyone to pretend their body is ‘just a vessel’ or to momentarily pretend their body can blend in with the world around it. Neutrality is therefore also a privilege.”
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Performance for the event Wie is er baas in jouw buik at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
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“Last year, Carly Everaert invited me to teach the second year Scenography students – the teaching block I was involved in was about getting certain kinds of activism to permeate into the arts."
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As part of Common Grounds: Song / Value, an exhibition program curated by Staci Bu Shea and Ying Que at Casco Art Institute, Mira performed a live online concert together with Thijmen Schoute and produced a music video for one of her songs with Nedelandse Gebarentaal interpretation.
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“How might a social model of disability be practiced within the context of The Netherlands? What would it look and feel like if the Dutch art and culture scene led the way for a radically new way to be solidary with people with a disability?”
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“The discriminatory image that exists about people with disabilities is persistent and has far-reaching consequences. Just looking at someone with a disability evokes fear, shame and discomfort in many."
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“The UK Statistical Office Office for National Statistics came out shocking a few weeks agonumbers out. Six out of ten Corona deaths in 2020 England were people with disabilities."
‘’From my own experience I know that it is a Sisyphean task to be able to appropriate your own body as someone with a physical disability. Labor that keeps unnoticed by most people. This labor starts very young."
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When the government fails to adequately support modes of independence for people with disabilities, community is there to foster possibilities and imagine potential!
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‘We need to move from here to there. We need to change the air.’
To get from one place to another, is a rehearsal of movement,
Oriented towards the horizon;