NANA has worked with ARTE TV, Sean Curran, Lilleth Glimcher, Peggy Gou, Emma Howes, Comphania Instavel, JAKOJAKO, Stine Janvin, Kiani del Valle, Justin F. Kennedy, MADBOOTS Dance, Lena Meyer Landrut, Mercedes Benz, Ouri, Floating Points, Zander Porter, Lyra Pramuck, The Progressive Wave, Aaron Samuel Davis, Jeremy Shaw, Ula Sickle, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Vogue Magazine, and Yin Yue Dance Company.

Her movement practice is influenced by her studies in modern techniques (Horton and Cunningham), jazz, Fosse, ballet, contemporary techniques (release, floorwork), improvisation, kung fu, and voice. Her movement creation comes from the play of improvisation scores, and discovering various emotions, states, and modes of physicality that can be transmitted through the body.

Choreography: Nana’s choreographic work is deeply inspired by nature, science fiction, surrealistic architecture, mysticism, and spiritual archetypes from collected archives of Ancient China, Mesoamerica, Paganism, and India (to name a few sources of research). She is interested in challenging borders both geographically and personally

Teaching: She is a teacher of improvisation and contemporary technique. Through her teaching she offers dance as a tool for grounding, healing, and awakening one’s wild spirit. She is a recipient of Neustart Kultur Distanzen 4, to research how trauma is stored in the body, and how movement can be a method to shift, transform, and reorganize neural pathways and patterns that are mapped inside of it.

Today, identity politics play a confronting role in the work of most contemporary artists. Nana is a queer, non-binary, mixed race immigrant living in Germany, and it is important that her work is not seen as limited to these identities, nor that these identities are overly-sensationalized for institutional quotas, but rather serve as mere undertones in her work, as they are inescapable foundations of Nana as a person, trying to be seen as a human rather than a checklist.

She is indebted to NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Temple University, Jeannette Neil Dance Studio, and Toft Center for being generous anchors of dance education in her life.