2026
“Choreographers in the Commons Sipping Coffee”, Oxford Handbook on Black Dance Studies, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz. Chapter written in collaboration with Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman Davis Wideman Davis Dance.

2025
Performing the Quiet: Minoritarian Gestures, Withholdings, and Refusals, Doctoral dissertation UC Berkeley Performance Studies

2023
Choreography for Lola, March 2021, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies

Photo of Dahlia, Tanya and Thaddeus by M. Reid

*Maraming” multimedia installation of sound, film, fabric, and durarional 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
San Francisco, CA
Wattis Institute

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

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

2017- 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.

2017 from
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster playing barbed wire cello.