Mykel Marai Nairne

(she/her) is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, administrator, and creative producer. Born and raised in NYC, Mykel studied dance at Alvin Ailey for 14 years, where she was a fellowship student, and graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Film & Media Studies in 2016. Mykel re-engaged with movement through intensives with Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, American Dance Festival, and Movement Invention Project, and has performed works by Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, Robert Battle, and John Heginbotham, among others. She joined Dance Heginbotham in 2018 and has since performed in the Off-Broadway revival of Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish, St. Ann’s Warehouse) and The Master and Form (Brendan Fernandes, Whitney Museum of American Art) at the Whitney Biennial. Mykel performed with MBB&Co for the first time in 2019 with Days Go By, It’s 3:07 Again virtually in April 2021, and is thrilled to return to live performance with the company at the WP Theater this summer! mykelmarainairne.com