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.
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. 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. Wait, N. (2019). “Embodied consciousness.” In V. Midgelow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. New York: Oxford University Press. Wait, N. (2015). Working with the breath. Critical Dialogues (5), 16-17. 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. 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). Book Review "Improvised Dance: (In)Corporeal Knowledges is a tremendous boon to the field of dance improvisation practice, as well as the scholarly fields of improvisation theory and dance studies, providing a rigorous philosophical framework and precise language for some very slippery ideas. Dance resides in this territory: slippery, fleshy, emotional, (in)corporeal. This territory has historically made empirical studies and the academy uncomfortable. With this book, Wait demonstrates dance is a singularly important site of research from which to forward current philosophical thought." - Megan Bridge Bridge, M. (2024). Danced by Invisible Forces: Improvised Dance: (In)Corporeal Knowledges By Nalina Wait. 238 pp. Illustrated. New York: Routledge, 2023. $160, $48.95 paper. ISBN 9781032438276, ISBN 9781032438283 paper. Dance Chronicle, 47(3), 554–558. https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2024.2350267 |
