Nina Winthrop

Nina Winthrop is a choreographer, company founder, dance-film curator, and dance-film maker whose career has centered on contemporary dance rooted in direct gesture and emotional narrative. She formed Nina Winthrop and Dancers in 1991, establishing a company that has performed at major New York and Los Angeles venues including Danspace Project, Joyce SoHo, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roulette, Movement Research at Judson Church, PS122, and The Flea Theater. Her work draws on reaching, stretching, pulling, and punching gestures that make emotional currents visible through the body—a concentrated physical focus that has become central to her artistic language. Beyond the stage, Winthrop has been instrumental in bringing dance to film and curating the field. She curated Dance on Film/Film on Dance at Symphony Space in 2004, and from 2005 to 2013 she organized Dance Conversations @ The Flea, a series that fostered dialogue around dance-making and performance. Her own dance films have screened across the United States and internationally, extending her choreographic voice into cinema and establishing her as both a maker and a curator of contemporary dance practice.