OUR PEOPLE
Artistic Director
NOVA BHATTACHARYA
Nova Bhattacharya is an award-winning, barrier-breaking, artist and cultural leader based in Tkaronto. Her inspiration is found in identities, hybridities and diversities, manifesting creations that resonate with technical virtuosity and lush, vivid imagery. She’s always been a rebel reinterpreting traditions and reinventing rituals. In 2008, embracing the principle that if you build for the margins then everyone is included, she founded Nova Dance. Gaining increasing recognition as a vibrant cultural hub and a space for vital conversations the company serves community with kindness, compassion and generosity. Nova’s most recent choreography Svāhā! features a cast of 22 performers proficient in more than 29 dance forms currently practiced on Turtle Island. The epic work embodies her vision of a diversiform company where the perceived boundaries of culture and technique are dissolved and bodies from the margins are centered.
Nova believes that dance expresses the essence of our humanity and has tremendous transformative power to bring us together.
2023/2024 Collaborators
Residency Artists
Guest Artists
Board of Directors
2022/2023 Artists
Associate Artists
Company Dancers
Guest Artists
Interns
2021/2022 Artists
Associate Artists
Company Dancers
Interns
Guest Artists
2020/2021 Artists
Associate Artists
Interns
Guest Artists
Artistic Collaborators
Management & Administration
The Recorders
We wish to thank for their art, the principal photographers & videographers on the Nova Dance website: Dahlia Katz, Ed Hanley, Diana Last, John Lauener and recognize the many other artists who lent their photographs to this site.