A Palestinian-American dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Seattle, WA, Tariq Mitri was born in Abu Dhabi and raised in Portland, OR. He earned his BFA in Dance Performance from the California Institute of the Arts in 2015. He has performed with more than 25 choreographers and companies in Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. From 2019 to 2021, Mitri served as Rehearsal and Co-Director of HEIDCO in Brooklyn. Since returning to Seattle in 2022, he has developed solo and collaborative works, and his choreography has been presented by Velocity Dance Center, CO–Seattle, Friends of WaterFront Seattle, and OtB. In 2024, he received a Body Space Time Residency at the University of Washington. Mitri co-founded Dance Class, a weekly rotating practice with Una Ludviksen, and is the Program and Operations Manager for Base: Experimental Arts + Space.