BIO.
Nadia Maryam is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts with over fifteen years of technical training and performance experience. Under the umbrella of commercial and concert work alike, she works as a performer, choreographer, filmmaker and collaborator in order to fulfill her current interest in researching the use of the body as a personal archive. She started dancing at Nevada Ballet Theater at the age of four, and later took part in a pre-professional company at Bunker Dance Center. In continuing her focus on dance in high school at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, she found that she most enjoyed training in ballet, modern, and contemporary techniques. She has also trained in jazz, tap, ballroom, and hip-hop styles. Nadia has had the opportunity to study with a variety of world renowned teachers and choreographers, including Peter Chu, Jermaine Spivey, Spenser Theberge, Medhi Walerski, Faustin Linyekula, Travis Wall, Mia Michaels, Sonya Tayeh, Summer Lee Rhatigan, and Okwui Okpokwasili.
In 2017 she received the opportunity to study under the direction of Ailey II’s artistic director learning and performing a portion of Alvin Ailey’s Streams. In 2018, Nadia was given the chance to learn and perform Ohad Naharin’s Decadance under the direction of Tom Weinberger and Bobbie Jene Smith. And following, she was granted the chance to study & perform Jiri Kylian’s Falling Angels. In 2019, allow an easement, a choreographic work Nadia developed with Kayla Aguila was adapted into a dance film created in collaboration with Audrey Collette and Simon Gulergun. The film remains successful in its achievement of being projected, and awarded for its quality at the Hammer Museum. Grateful to have performance experience internationally, Maryam has also performed work in Paris & Amsterdam. In 2021, she danced in Tannhauser at LA Opera with choreographic direction by Aszure Barton. And most recently, Nadia was granted the role of background dancer for Kali Uchis, opening for Tyler the Creator’s CMIYGL national tour.
Nadia Maryam is active and consistent in her mission to capture the visceral beauty of emotion and sensitivity using a multi-disciplinary vessel of text and movement. In merging humanity, physicality, and balancing sensations such as effort and pleasure, she believes the work created and performed can challenge boundaries of self, colleagues, and interpreters. Today, Nadia balances her movement research with numerous business endeavors and has even expanded her practices to Pilates pedagogy. She continues to be LA based as a working pilates instructor & company member with Invertigo Dance Theater & Mash Up Contemporary Dance Company. She is also the leader of New Visions Collective— an international investment group working to build generational wealth, and break generational curses. Finally, Maryam uses her mission as a guide for her current work entitled new red. This project is a solo based movement process that expands to several other mediums including text, photography and film.