Nina Martin’s choreographic and improvisational works and master teaching has been presented in New York City, the U.S. and abroad, including Russia, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Venezuela, Mexico and Japan. Performance credits include David Gordon Pick-Up Company, Mary Overlie, Deborah Hay, Martha Clarke, and Simone Forti, among others.
Nina danced in the PBS Dance in America Beyond the Mainstream program which featured Steve Paxton and others. She was a founding member of Channel Z (NYC), New York Dance Intensive, and Lower Left and presently is a board member of Marfa Live Arts which hosts the March 2 Marfa Performance Labs and Dance Ranch Marfa workshops. After working 17 years in NYC she relocated to the West coast in 1994 where her choreography and community activism earned her three Tommy awards and an Irvine Foundation Dancemakers Grant.
While on the west coast she was on faculty at UCLA's Department of World Art and Cultures. Martin has received funding for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts through six choreography fellowships, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joyce-Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Meet the Composer/ Choreographer Grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, and others. Currently she is theorizing the practice and performance of improvisational practice, in a low residency Ph.D. program at Texas Woman's University. Martin received her MFA from TWU.