2016 Improv Traditions & Innovations: From Ring Shout To Blues To Jazz Guest Artist
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Nia Love is an artist, activist, choreographer, educator, installation artist, and co-founder with Marjani Forté-Saunders of LOVE|FORTÉ. She apprenticed with Havana’s world renowned Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1978. Love was awarded a Fulbright Fellow from 2001-2003. In 1996, she worked and danced with the celebrated Japanese Butoh master, Min Tanaka, and appeared with him in Susan Sontag’s Poe Project at Jacob’s Pillow. Her work has been presented at Bates Dance Festival, Black Choreographers Moving Towards the 21st Century, Harlem Stage, and Tanzanian-Time 2Dance Festival. Her installation, Iteration#1 Project was made possible by The Suitcase Fund grant, an initiative of New York Live Arts in 2012 & 2013. Her choreographic work has received the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s New Dance Choreography Lab 2013 award, a 2014 City University of New York Choreographic Initiative grant, and most recently was appointed Artist-in-Residence 2015-2016 by Movement Research. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Queens College and Hunter College in New York.