Plugging away on PhD, some writing in the works.

2023 Nayar, D., (2023)
“Choreography for Lola, March 2021”, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies| 42. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/conversations.3659


2025 Forthcoming chapter in Oxford Handbook on Black Dance Studies, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz. Written in collaboration with Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman Davis of Wideman Davis Dance.

Photo of Dahlia, Tanya and Thaddeus by M. Reid

Our first post Covid performances…

The Uh Oh Trio presents a multimedia performance in response to Long Kwento a solo exhibit by Maia Cruz Palileo.

December 3 & 4, 2021
3pm - 6pm, durational performance
12pm - 6pm, sound and video projection
Wattis Institute

April 22, 2022
5:30-8:30 p.m. durational performance
Park City, Utah
Kimball Arts Center

The Uh Oh Trio creates Maraming: a multimedia response of sound, projection and dance to the stories, characters, and images within Maia Cruz Palileo's Long Kwento. Ukulele, Bells, Sungka shells, and popular early 20th century Filipina song styles are expanded, repeated, transformed, and re-imagined into an electronic ambient soundscape by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster. Film projections invoke an aesthetics of busog. Performers Dahlia Nayar and Margaret Sunghe Paek question scripted movements in the gallery, responding to Long Kwento’s provocations to unpack, to remember, to dream, to play.

The Uh Oh Trio is a collaborative project between Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Margaret Sunghe Paek and Dahlia Nayar.

January 2019.

Between 2017 and 2019 Dahlia was one of 6 choreographers from across the country invited to tour the state of Alabama over multiple residences and dozens of performances. This two year project was organized by the Alabama Dance Council as part of the state’s bicentennial and envisioned to engage audiences in conversation about immigration, dislocation, the meaning of place and home.

Fall 2017

In researching our next project, from, Loren has created a stunning score for this work, incorporating sounds recorded on the site and creating a barbed wire cello instrument he strung. Our research delves into his family’s experience at the Topaz Prison Camp during World War II. Video clips forthcoming.

With this work we continue our investigation into belonging and non-belonging, deeply personal histories, and our nation’s current and recurring debates over bans, building walls, detention camps, and keeping the “other” out. We ask, "How can we offer destabilizing notions of identity to a world that historically prefers to categorize, reduce, capture, pigeon-hole, dehumanize? Can we recognize the unfamiliar as an extension of ourselves? Can the concept of “from” be placeless, inclusive, evade assumptions and vibrate with potential?” We envision this work having multiple manifestations, as a live performance, as an installation and as a multimedia exhibit.

Wishing you renewed energy and hope this spring. Spring 2017

Wishing you peace and sanity in the New Year

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First stop on our National Tour: Chicago! Tickets for our October performances at Links Hall are available now! Dahlia will be speaking on a panel for the Chicago Dancemakers Forum hosted by High Concept Laboratories. Summer. photo credit: Kelly Fletcher photography.

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Dahlia is honored to receive the 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Choreography. Dahlia Nayar and composer collaborator Loren Kiyoshi Dempster have created an interactive multimedia installation featured in the New Art Center Gallery in Newton, MA mid-September. photo credit: triptych and sound piece installation, New Art Center opening reception photographed by Anna Olivella.

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Happy New Year! We are thrilled to announce that 2125 Stanley Street is a recipient of the National Dance Project Touring Award! For more information, please read our Winter Newsletter.

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Fall 2015.

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We are in residence this week with the Vermont Performance Lab, adapting 2125 Stanley Street for the Dianich Gallery. Performances this Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day Weekend More information here. VPL's Progressive Performance Festival is made possible with funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council, the Samara Fund, and VPL's Creation Fund donors, and media sponsorship from The Commons.

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2125 Stanley Street was selected by Down East Magazine for its 2015 Best of Stage and Screen category: "In April, The Dance Hall in Kittery hosted Maine’s most compelling recent dance performance. Dancers in Dahlia Nayar’s 2125 Stanley Street gorgeously explore domesticity and notions of home using mops, laundry, and other domestic props in beautiful and unexpected ways..." Our thanks again to Drika Overton and The Dance Hall for hosting us.

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Summer 2015.

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2125 Stanley Street at Topaz Arts Studio and Gallery, NYC. For more information please click here. Free admission, RSVP to: rsvp@topazarts.org. This performance is made possible, in part, by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. with support from NYS DanceForce with funds from NYSCA Dance Program.

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Spring 2015.

photo: Loren setting up at Nichhiren Buddhist Church, Japantown, San Francisco, August 2014.

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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont
Dahlia will be performing with Candice Salyers in artist/architect Alisa Dworsky's installation: Motion Line Form

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2125 Stanley Street at the Dance Hall in Kittery Maine. Reserve here for tickets. Funded in part by New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies

2125 Stanley Street comes to Amherst College. Presented by Copeland Colloqium. Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 8 p.m., Webster Hall Studio 2. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. This event has sold out.

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Click Winter 2015.

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Showing at Chocolate Factory Theater, NYC,
as part of Throw Series. Tuesday, December 16th, 7 p.m.

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2125 Stanley Street is migrating and adapting:
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle.
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The Chapel
4649 Sunnyside Ave, Seattle, Washington
8 p.m: Trio Tritticali
9 p.m: Performance of 2125 Stanley Street

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Performance Works NW
4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR
7:30 p.m. Evening length performance of 2125 Stanley Street
8:30 Refreshments and live music by Trio Tritticali


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Nichiren Hokke Buddhist Church
2016 Pine St, San Francisco, CA
7 p.m. Evening length performance of 2125 Stanley Street
8 p.m. Refreshments and live music by Trio Tritticali


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Looping installation performance of 2125 Stanley Street.
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
2-6 p.m. (3:30-5:30 p.m. recommended time)
Free and Open to the Public

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Bates Dance Festival: July 21-August 11, 2013.

Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Vermont Performance Lab
will support the development of 2125 Stanley Street,
a creative collaboration with Margaret Sunghe Paek
and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster.

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Pre-performance installation and choreography commissioned
by the Mt. Holyoke College Symphony Orchestra.
Chapin Auditorium, Mt Holyoke College

Dahlia is delighted to join the Smith College Dance Department
as a Guest Artist beginning Spring 2013.

"...forever without end and after this" (installation version)
a solo for Candice Salyers, commissioned as part of a history of levitation
Fall draft showing at Redfern Arts Center.

Marymount Manhattan College invites Dahlia Nayar
as part of its Dialogues in Dance series. Guest artists
are invited to speak to the department's 220 dance majors.
Great Hall, Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department , NYC.

acqua alta has been selected as part of the CPR Spring Movement Series,
a bi-annual multimedia movement festival featuring dance and experimental performance.
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY

co/motion, a dance work by Margaret Paek will be performed as part of
Alicia and Jason Moran's residency at the Whitney Museum Biennial NYC.

performing the quiet is an interactive workshop
inviting participants to delve into the creative process
behind 8-minute meditations, a performance installation
that weaves together film, dance and guided meditation.
Duke University Slippage: Performance Culture-Technology

Smith College, Master Class

acqua alta has been nominated for three awards:
Emerging Choreographer, Outstanding New Work and
Excellence in Stage Design and Multimedia.

Creative residency for development of ruth's garden,
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA.

Danspace Project, St. Mark's Place, NYC, 8 p.m.
Movement Research Fall Festival.

Long Island University, Brooklyn, NYC

Rhythmic Notation for Dancers Master Classes
Marymount Manhattan College, NYC

8-minute meditations excerpts + "ruth's garden" work in progress
College of the Holy Cross

[dream] factories, presented by Watusi Regime
in association with Shen Wei Dance Arts
Park Avenue Armory, NYC

Master class and performance: 8-minute meditations excerpts.
Salem State University

Upcoming guest lectures/master classes/performances/artist talks:
Long Island University, Salem State College, College of the Holy Cross, Marymount Manhattan College, Smith College and Duke University.
info@dahlianayar.com