Jumana Al Refai is a professionally trained dancer and choreographer in ballet and modern dance based in Kuwait. She has over 20 years of experience and has trained, performed, and worked with internationally recognized dancers and choreographers. In this conversation, Jumana and I talk as two dancers living in countries where it is not traditional to study dance. We talk about how she’s gotten to where she is in her professional career, where she hopes to go as a dancer working mainly in the Middle East, musicality and the different ways her multi-cultural background play a role in her work, being an active, awesome hijabi woman working in the arts, and dance as a way of connecting and relating to the people around you- both in your community and the wider world. 

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