Nadia Ureña

Photo: Katherine Dooros Photography

Nadia Ureña is an active Philly-based contemporary performer, choreographer, and researcher. She aims to intersect dance studies with black feminism, media theory,
video games, existential philosophy, and memes.. As a performer, Nadia worked with professional artists such as Orion Duckstein, Charles Anderson, Cynthia Gutierrez, Garner, Xiang Xu, The Megan Flynn Dance Company, and Teresa VanDenend Sorge. She has performed at The Cincinnati Fringe Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 30/30/30 in NYC, KYLD’s Inhale Series, the American Dancers Guild 2024, and Wax Works in NYC. As a scholar, Nadia is interested in using multimedia to make dance theory and practice more accessible to dancers and non-dancers alike. Her thesis anti[thesis] advocated for process based movement generation and questioned how modern dance, choreography, and curriculum have evolved within both creative and educational contexts to predict the form's future direction. She served as a panelist at the 2023 NDEO Conference about teaching students about labor rights. Nadia received her MFA in Dance at Temple University. During her studies, she was a Graduate Fellow and has received the Katherine Dunham Award for Creative Dance Research. She received a B.A. in Dance and Media & Communications from Muhlenberg College and spent a semester abroad at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.