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nia love

Associate Professor

School of Dance

nia love (Director, UNDERcurrents the Project) is a bi-costal New York-Florida based, Black Indigenous American -born choreographer whose work focuses on centering Black cultures through artmaking, collective community collaborative, facilitation as teacher and organizer, and trans-disciplinary visionary. She is deeply rooted in the practice of intersectionality, building artistic ecosystems with redemptive imagination. I create projects where land, water, community, and value, are at the foundation of practicing equity. A graduate of Howard University and Florida State University.

Contact and Files

Select Residencies & Fellowships

  • Embodying Anti-racism Initiative(EAI), Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (2021–2023)
  • Petronio Center Residency, Round Top, NY ( 2023)
  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, New York, NY(2022)
  • Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Residency, Tallahassee, FL Movement Research Rosin Fund Residency, New York, NY (2021)
  • Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2020-2021)
  • the Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellowship at Maggie Allesee National Center For Choreography, Tallahassee, FL (2019-2020)
  • a Gibney DiP Dance in Process Residency at Gibney Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, New York, NY (2019)

Grants

  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2024)
  • Creative Engagement and UMEZ Arts Engagement Grants (2024) Harlem Grown Culture
  • Creativity & Care Grant | Marcus Garvey Park Initiative (2024)
  • New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Production Grant (2022)
  • MAP Fund Grant (2020).

Awards

  • Foundation for Contemporary Art Award (2022)
  • Herb Alpert Award (2021)
  • The Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition for g1(host): lostatsea (2017) and Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Skeleton Architecture…we been here.