BIOGRAPHIES

Nia Love

CHOREOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR, PERFORMER

nia love (she/her) is a choreographer and somatic practitioner driven by the social force and weight of blackness. Aiming to breach the propriety of “dance,” she redresses it as gesture - the memory of movement, geographies, and scales and ruptures of time held in our flesh. As a teenager, love apprenticed with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in Havana, Cuba. She is a Graduate of Howard University (BA) and Florida State University (MFA), and she is a Fulbright Fellow for research in Ghana, Mali and Togo, Urban Bush Women Choreographic Initiative 2.0 Fellow, and an Embodying Anti-Racism Fellow at Wesleyan University. She has received two Bessie’s Awards for performance and music composition, and is a recipient of the the Herb Alpert Award and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award. Her work has been funded by NYLA’s Suitcase Fund, the MAP Fund, and NEFA’s National Dance Project Production Grant, and she has received LMCC’s Workspace Residency, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) Residency, and the Movement Research Rosin Fund Residency. In addition to her own work, she has toured internationally with Butoh master Min Tinaka’s Poe Project and nationally with Liz Lerman’s Wicked Bodies. Love has taught across the U.S. and abroad, and currently she is an adjunct professor at Queens College and the New School, and the artistic advisor to NYLA’s Fresh Tracks program, and BAX’s Artist-in-Residence program.