Nia Love

Presently, love lives on unseated Lenape Nation land known as New York. A native Californian with recently discovered deeply embedded roots in Louisiana with the Ouachita/Washitaw Nation from her Matrilineal side. love pens her name in lowercase to challenge notions of subject, subjugation, and subjectivity. In the tradition of her grandmothers and great grandmothers, love’s practice redefines power under the rubric of care and in the realm of domesticity. Her career spans forty-five years, beginning in 1978 becoming one of the youngest international apprentices with Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Received a BFA in Theater Directing and pre Medicine from Howard University and an MFA in Choreography from Florida State University. In 1996 studied Butoh and toured with Japanese Butoh master Min Tanaka and received the honorary Fulbright Fellow in 2002-03. She has been nominated for the prestigious 2022 United States Artists Fellowship. Support for her work includes grants and fellowship residencies from the Suitcase Fund Award Africa and Middle East Cultural Partnership, Surdna Foundation, CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), Choreographic Center Initiative Fellowship, and most recently MAP Fund, Gibney Presents Residency, and Gibney|DiP, UBW Choreographic Center Initiative. Engaging Dance nia facilitates technique, creative process, and community engagement classes/workshops around the world. She toured internationally as a solo artist and the past for four years with Liz Lerman, and continues to perform in project‐based work, including Skeleton Architecture, an acclaimed collective of Black women(+) improvisers with whom she received a coveted New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for performance in 2017. Love’s second Bessie Award in Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design in 2020. nia, a recipient of the 2020-21 Artist in Residence at Bryn Mawr College, the Movement Research Rosin Fund Residency. Most recently-- a 2021resident artist at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). She is currently the Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist-In-Residence Co-Artistic Advisor and New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artistic Advisor. love presently serves as an Assistant professor adjunct at Queens College and New school|Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.