Malakeh is a New Zealand-born, Meanjin-based transdisciplinary performance artist with a specialised focus on MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenic, and Turkish) dance, burlesque, and sideshow.

As a freelance teaching artist and producer, her work and practice is guided by a desire to enhance accessibility to classes, opportunities, and performance spaces for beginner adult performers and marginalised people.

Drawing from her own lived experiences as a physical performer with chronic pain, she strives to embed MENAHT principles into her practice to challenge and deconstruct social and class barriers within traditionally exclusive Western artistic spaces.