Miriana M. Lausic Arratia is a choreographer, dancer, and dance scholar who was born in Punta Arenas, Chile. Currently she is residing in Washington, DC. She has both Latina and Croatian heritage. Her original ballet training and early professional experience as a dancer took place at the Croatian National Theatre in Split, under the direction of Višnja Ðordevic. Subsequently, she danced professionally with the ballet Ballet de Cámara del Teatro Municipal under the direction of Claudio Muñoz, and the Ballet de Arte Moderno under Octavio Cintolessi, the founder of the Teatro Municipal in Chile.

While dancing professionally, she completed a history degree at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago.

Miriana M. Lausic Arratia completed an MFA in choreography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she was recipient of a full university scholarship.

Her choreography has been performed at the Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the GALA Hispanic Theatre, the historic Lincoln Theater in Washington DC, the Carter Barron Amphitheater, UNCG, and York University. Dr. Lausic Arratia has also completed a PhD at York University, Toronto, as a recipient of the Ontario Trillium Scholarship and the Provost Award. Her doctoral dissertation, “Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia: Choreographing Dance Studies with Philosophy”, is situated in the field of dance studies in conjunction with a multidisciplinary engagement with the fields of art history, ethnography, philosophy, and critical theory. She has presented her research at the World Dance Alliance Conferences in St. John’s and Anger; Arts in Society Conferences in Paris and Rome; Derrida Today Conferences in London and Montreal; Canadian Society for Dance Studies / Society of Dance History Scholars in Montreal and Toronto; and York University’s Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Her scholarly research has been published as refereed articles in Studies in Theatre and Performance and the International Journal of Arts Theory and History.

She is currently completing a book on gesture and transgression in flamenco and tauromaquia.