choreographer/improvisor, pedagogue, dance theorist and performer Nina Martin Performance
Centered in the phenomena of perception, composition and spontaneous movement states her research springs from over 50 years of embodied research in postmodern dance aesthetics and especially into the workings of the human neuro/visual perceptual system and preconscious movement phenomena. Martin tours across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia teaching and performing inspired by dance systems: Ensemble Thinking™ and ReWire Movement States™ which complement her practice of Contact Improvisation.
Performance/collaboration credits include Lower Left Performance Collective, Martha Clarke, Shelley Senter, Roma Flowers, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon Pick-Up Company, Mary Overlie, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti, and Steve Paxton along with Daniel Lepkoff, Lisa Nelson, Warshaw, and Nancy Stark Smith in the PBS Dance in America Beyond the Mainstream nationally televised program. Martin’s choreographies received six fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as other honors. Martin also danced as a founding artist of Channel Z in NYC with Lepkoff, Paul Langland, Diane Madden, Stephen Petronio, Warshaw, and Robin Feld.
Martin is an artist member of the Lower Left Performance Collective where cooperative inquiry is valued: Lower Left Collective. ReWire Movement States™ and Ensemble Thinking™ are dance systems initially conceived by Nina Martin and continually developed by Lower Left artists which also offers a certification program in Ensemble Thinking. Martin hosts dance destinations in Far West Texas in the artful town of Marfa in the Chihuahuan Desert. Martin is a newly certified teacher in Gyrotonic™ and she is a Professor of Dance Studies at TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance SCCDance.
