nia love
Modern, Post Modern, West African Dance

nia love is a choreographer, dancer, director, filmmaker, and curator. Love has taught at every single dance school throughout New York from 2001-2017. Her decades of teaching and guest Artist residencies include ADF, Bates Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, MASS MoCA, Movement Research to name a few. Her prestigious international and national choreographic, immersive multimedia film work and teaching have taken her to the UK, East Africa, South America, Japan, and Cuba. 

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She is a graduate from Howard University (BA) and Florida State University (MFA), a Fulbright Fellow, 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 MAP Fund, the Herb Alpert Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, LMCC Workspace Residency, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) Residency, the Movement Research Rosin Fund Residency. and NEFA’s National Dance Project Production Grant. Love currently is an Associate Professor at Florida State University’s School of Dance and the  Brooklyn Arts Exchange’s (BAX) Artist-in-Residence co-advisor. Director- Choreographer of  UNDERcurrents project.

 

Intensive Description:

The purpose of this 4- day workshop is to develop a professional dancer capable of working within diverse styles and techniques in contemporary dance with an emphasis on; the syncopated and poly-rhythmic cultural body, distal and core counterbalancing, proprioceptive sensing and professional artistic development. This workshop values practice and process as a cornerstone to developing technique and interconnectedness of mind and body as we build the self and our community over the course of this workshop, creating, too, care ecosystems for the time we gather.  

 

Discussions and check-ins that accompany our practice and create space for all voices to be heard while practicing and negotiating techniques. Embodying movement integrity of structural and muscular initiation over movement range, musicality, breath, rough-hewn physicality with a strong understanding of body mechanics concepts over “refined” movement aesthetics.    

 

This workshop is a medium to advanced level class and also invites all persons who are deeply invested in the progression of risk and artistry throughout your study. The student is encouraged to bring a point of view based on the student's movement lineage and culture.