Nina Martin 
Professor | Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX, UNITED STATES
Professor Martin specializes in dance practices for people with special needs such as ReWire Movement Method and Ensemble Thinking.
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Biography
dentifying as a choreographer, pedagogue, theorist and performer, Martin’s research springs from 45 years of embodied inquiry and applied dance centered in the phenomena of perception, health, composition and preconscious movement states.
After dancing in Mexico, Austin and choreographing professionally for 18 years in New York City’s vibrant dance scene, Martin’s choreography and pedagogical methods have been presented across the USA and abroad including Russia, Austria, Ireland, England, Finland, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Japan, Venezuela, Mexico and Canada.
Martin has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts through six choreography fellowships, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joyce-Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Meet the Composer/ Choreographer Grants, Irvine Foundation (CA), Texas Commission on the Arts, and others. She was a founding member of Channel Z (NYC), New York Dance Intensive, and Lower Left Collective. Performance credits include Lower Left Performance Collective (www.lowerleft.org), David Gordon Pick-Up Company, Mary Overlie, Deborah Hay, Martha Clarke, Simone Forti, PBS Dance in America Beyond the Mainstream program dancing in the section that featured Steve Paxton and Contact Improvisation.
She has served on the faculties of UCLA’s Department of World Art and Cultures and New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing as well as guesting at colleges and universities across the states. Presently she is board president of Marfa Live Arts, which hosts the March 2 Marfa Performance Lab and Dance Ranch Marfa workshops in Marfa, TX and Professor of Dance Studies at TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance (www.dance.tcu.edu). Martin completed her MFA and PhD at Texas Woman’s University. ReWire Movement States and Ensemble Thinking are dance systems conceived by Nina Martin and taught internationally. www.nina.martin.org
Areas of Expertise (8)
Pedagogies of Spontaniety
Choreography
Health
Alternative Therapies
Dance
Dance Therapy
Collaboration
Improvisational dance practices
Accomplishments (4)
Midland Public Library (Marfa Live Arts/Lower Left Residency)
2015
Texas Commission on the Arts 2007 (Marfa Theatre/Lower Left residency)
2005, 2006, 2007 2008, 2009
Joyce-Mertz Gilmore Foundation
1990
National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships
1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990
Education (3)
Texas Woman’s University: Ph.D., Dance 2013
Texas Woman’s University: M.F.A., Dance 2008
Empire State College, State University of New York: B.A., Dance Studies 2006
Affiliations (3)
- Congress on Research in Dance National Dance Education Association
- Marfa Live Arts : Board President
- Texas Dance Improvisation Festival : Advisory Committee
Links (3)
Media Appearances (2)
Dance Leads to Therapeutic Potential
TCU Magazine online
2020-06-21
Susie Angel had few expectations when she signed up for a weekend workshop that Nina Martin taught in November 2014. “Nina had us start with a warmup, doing something called Fussy Baby that we did on the ground,” said Angel, whose cerebral palsy keeps her in constant motion throughout her waking hours.
Research Shows a Real Connection Between Dance and Physical Healing
TCU News online
2019-06-20
Susie Angel had few expectations when she signed up for a weekend workshop that Nina Martin taught in November 2014. “Nina had us start with a warmup, doing something called Fussy Baby that we did on the ground,” said Angel, whose cerebral palsy keeps her in constant motion throughout her waking hours.
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