About

Nalina Wait is a dance artist, pracademic, and Dance lecturer (ACPE) with a particular interest in improvisation. She is a pākehā of Éireannach (Irish) settler descent, who lives in Bidgigal/Gadigal Country, Eora, Sydney. She is curious about processes of somatic intelligence cultivation in the practice and performance of improvisation.

Images
Above: Traffic (2001) by Rosalind Crisp, photo by Heirdun Löhr.
Below: On View: Panoramic Suite (2021), photo by Wendell Teodoro.
Lower: The Curiosities (2009) by Sue Healey, photo by Heirdun Löhr.

Pracademia

Publications
Wait, N. (2023). Improvised Dance: (In)Corporeal Knowledges. Routledge.
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Wait, N. & Brannigan, E. (2018). “(Non) competitive body states: Corporeal freedom and innovation in contemporary dance.” In S. Dodds (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Wait, N. (2019). “Embodied consciousness.” In V. Midgelow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Wait, N. (2015). Working with the breath. Critical Dialogues (5), 16-17.
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Wait, N. (2015). Authentic movement: Seated. Critical Dialogues (5), 32-33.
Wait, N. (2015). Dance Massive: An independent Sydney perspective. Critical Dialogues (4) 28-31.

Wait, N. (2014). Listening with my skin, bones, organs, eyes. Real Time Magazine (123), 24.
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Interviewed in Baxter, V. (2013). Performing in 13 Rooms. Real Time Magazine (115), 8.
Conference Presentations
2022 Intermedial Composition Network, UNSW
2017 Pragmatics : Practice : Praxis, UNSW
2015 La Danse Comme Expérience in Recherche Dans Les Arts EHESS, Paris. 2015 Gesture and the Alternative Science of Contemporary Dance, at ASDA Sydney University
2014 In Conversation panel member at Improvisational Practices Symposium, Critical Path
2014 Past, Present and Future: Shifting Boundaries FASS Postgraduate Conference, UNSW
2013 Cultures of Change SAM Postgraduate Symposium, UNSW
Choreographic Residencies
National choreographic residencies at Bundanon Trust (2016), Critical Path (2008, 2007, 2005), Ausdance NSW (2006), Omeo Dance Studio (1998-2005).
International choreographic residencies at Kinosake International Arts Centre, Japan (2020), Monty in Antwerp, Le Biennale Nationale de Danse Val-de-Marne and the CND in Paris, Tanzfabric in Berlin (all 2001).
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Reviews
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