Nubian Néné / A Lady in the House Dance Company, photo by suarfotos
Nubian Néné is a Montreal native and a New York-based dancer/choreographer who weaves Street & Club dances to create her unique captivating style. Her resilience and hard work stem from her Haitian roots, enabling her to expand into a producer, curator, visual artist, teacher, and a reliable asset to any endeavor and team. Her mentors, some of the innovators of the Street & Club dance cultures, support, encourage, and inspire her to identify cultural references, to be involved and engaged in the community, and through pedagogy help carry the weight of the African diasporic legacy. Nubian Néné performs with Bboyizm Dance Company In My Body (2022), Passion Fruit Dance CompanyTrapped (2021), and Dimensions (2025). Signature Verses Liberation (2022), an ode to architecture, dance, and drawing, is her first visual art installation, and proof of harmony. She has premiered Traceable, a solo work in January 2025 at the MAI (Montreal), inspired by mental health and its effect on creativity. Nubian Néné is the creator, curator, and artistic director of Waack Bazaar,The Essence Experience, Glasses & Laces, and A Lady in The House Dance Company.
Fantezi: With this work, I’m drawn to how different Black bodies—Queer, Non-Queer, Women-identifying—connect with W*acking and what it reveals to each of us, over 40 years after its inception. What is the Queer, Black, American evolution of this form? How do we, as Black bodies, navigate its rhythm to confront our lived realities? There is power in reclaiming this dance—honoring its roots, challenging its erasure, and insisting it be seen and celebrated on the soil that birthed it. This is about presence, visibility. About lifting up the voices, the stories, the movements of Black Queer bodies, of Black women, of those often pushed to the margins. W*acking is more than performance—it is a tool for expression, resistance, and restoration. And through it, we open a space that invites teens and adults alike to move against the weight of prejudice, queerphobia, racism, and more.
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
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