nia love

nia love is a Florida and New York-based choreographer and somatic practitioner whose work focuses on centering Black cultures through transdisciplinary artmaking and community-engaged collaboration. She began her professional dance career as a teenage apprentice with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. She earned her BA in Theater Directing from Howard University, and her MFA in Dance from Florida State University. She is a former Fulbright Fellow for her research in Ghana & Mali, an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Initiative 2.0 Fellow, and an Embodying Anti-Racism Fellow at Wesleyan University. She received a Bessie Award for her performance with skeleton architecture, a Bessie Award for music composition for g1(host):lostatsea, and the Alvin Ailey New Directions Lab Choreographer Award. She is also a recipient of Dance Theater Workshop’s Suitcase Fund for her work in Tanzania, the MAP Fund, the Herb Alpert Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, and NEFA’s National Dance Project Production Grant.

Her work has additionally been supported by Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Artist-in-Residence program, Bryn Mawr’s Centering Critical Blackness Residency, Dancing While Black Residency, Gibney’s Dance-in-Process (DiP) Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center (MANCC) Residency, Movement Research Rosin Fund Residency, and the Petronio Residency Center. Her current project, UNDERcurrents, which explores the ongoing embodied history of the Middle Passage, was commissioned by the Harlem Stage|Water Works Established Artist Program. UNDERcurrents will be opening as a large-scale immersive performance installation in August of 2026 at FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts with the support of a Council on Research and Creativity SEED Grant. She has taught across the United States including the American Dance Festival (ADF), Bates Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, Hollins University, UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently an artistic advisor to Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Artist-in-Residence program and the artistic advisor to New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks program.