Introduction
Nina Wiener is an American dancer, choreographer, and sculptor.
Career
Wiener started dancing with Twyla Tharp Dance Company, in 1973. She left in 1976 to form her own dance group named Nina Wiener and Dancers. Famed American choreographer Bebe Miller was a member of the group for six years.
Wiener's company was selected to participate in the New Dance USA festival in 1981. The same year, she was selected by Mikhail Baryshnikov to participate in the American Ballet Theatre's workshop "Emerging Artists Laboratory," where she created a work specifically for their training company.
Her group also performed at Jacobs Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts; the London Dance Umbrella; and the Utrecht Modern Dance and Movement Festival in 1984.
In 1985, Wiener's company produced pieces for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's "Next Wave" festival, where she premiered In Closed Time, a three-act piece with separate scores for each act and a set of ten massive architectural elements designed by the firm Arquitectonica.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she served as artistic adviser to the Dutch company Dance Reflex, for which she created several works and set up a training program.
Wiener stopped dancing after a bad injury, following which, she became a psychotherapist specializing in artists.
Currently, she sculpts, mostly with clay. Her works can be seen on her website ninawienerceramics.com.