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Image Description: A side profile of Miggy, who crouches amidst bushes and white flowers that recede blurrily into the background. Miggy’s fingers gently crawl up from a long-sleeved maroon shirt, over chin and lips, and toward a small ocean of black, wavy hair. The brown skin of Miggy’s cheek is caressed by the palm of a hand, supporting closed eyes that look down in contemplation.

Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban

Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice

Dr. Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban is a dance/movement artist, educator, and scholar. Situated at the intersection of disability studies, mad studies, dance/performance studies, black studies, and queer studies, Miggy’s research, teaching, and artistic work explores disability/mad arts as abolitionist sites for reimagining artistic, scholarly, and pedagogical practice.

They are the incoming co-director of Arts Assembly and the Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability and Social Justice at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Disability Studies where their current project examines crip/mad/queer/trans choreographic and improvisational practices of access and care.

Miggy’s work has been published in Performance Matters, Canadian Theatre Review, Choreographic Practices, Disability Studies Quarterly, Feral Feminisms, Journal for Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Theatre Journal, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and in various edited volumes. Miggy’s most recent artistic project, pahinga ka muna, transforms audio descriptions into choreographic scores that invite audiences to join them in pursuing improvised rituals of navigating mad and queer routes to embody Filipinx (un)rest. An iteration of this work was presented by DanceWorks in June 2026.

Publications (Orcid)  (external link, opens in new window)