NHAN HO
CHOREOGRAPHER • EDUCATOR • INTERDISPLINARY ARTIST
Nhan Ho is a choreographer, performer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges contemporary dance, dance film, multimedia, and collaborative creative research. Through choreography and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he explores themes of identity, human connection, and embodied experience, creating work that is both physically compelling and emotionally resonant. His artistic practice spans the concert stage, screen, and immersive performance environments, inviting audiences to engage with movement as a catalyst for curiosity, dialogue, and transformation.
Since founding the Nhan Ho Project in 2010, Nhan has cultivated a collaborative platform for artists to create innovative performance work rooted in community, inclusivity, and artistic exploration. His choreography blends the expressive weight and breath of modern dance with contemporary and urban movement vocabularies, resulting in a distinctive choreographic voice that has been presented by professional companies, universities, and festivals throughout the United States, including sjDANCEco's ChoreoProject Awards, the West Wave Dance Festival, and numerous collegiate and professional venues.
A defining influence on Nhan's artistic practice is his extensive training in Limón Technique, which he has studied and performed for more than a decade. He trained under Gary Masters, former principal dancer with the Limón Dance Company, and performed with Limón West Dance Company. This lineage continues to shape his creative process through an emphasis on breath, weight, musicality, and intention, informing both his choreography and his teaching.
Currently, Nhan serves as Assistant Professor of Dance at Northwestern State University, where he teaches Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Dance History, Choreography, and other technique and academic courses. His teaching philosophy encourages students to cultivate curiosity, technical excellence, and individual artistic voices while developing the adaptability necessary for today's evolving dance profession.
In recent years, Nhan's creative research has expanded into interdisciplinary performance, bringing together dance, visual art, science, multimedia, and interactive technologies to create immersive artistic experiences. His grant-funded research project, Catalyst/MOVE, and its culminating public performance installation, MOVE: Echoes of Self, exemplify his commitment to collaborative inquiry and innovative approaches to contemporary performance.
Beyond the university, Nhan has created original choreography for institutions including California State University, Sacramento, San José State University, Modesto Junior College, and the University of Idaho, University of Lincoln- Nebraska, in addition to professional companies and independent artists. As a performer, he has collaborated with organizations including BODYART Dance Company, Sasha Soreff Dance Theater, PUSH Dance Company, sjDANCEco, and Limón West Dance Company, experiences that continue to inform his multifaceted perspective as a choreographer, educator, and collaborator.
Nhan has presented his research nationally through organizations including the Dance Studies Association (DSA) and the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), sharing scholarship on contemporary pedagogy, Limón Technique, Hip Hop, choreography, and interdisciplinary creative practice. His leadership in higher education, professional companies, and community organizations reflects an ongoing commitment to cultivating inclusive artistic spaces where creativity, collaboration, and innovation thrive.
Nhan holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Arizona. Whether creating choreography for the concert stage, directing dance films, leading interdisciplinary research initiatives, or mentoring emerging artists, he is committed to expanding the possibilities of dance as a powerful medium for connection, discovery, and shared human experience.
