May 28th - June 18th, Anhui, China, 2026

Nava Messas Waxman & Naishi Wang

Conference 2025 Congrès - October 16–18 octobre, York University, Toronto, ON In an era where transnationalism and technology continue to shape human and non-human mobility, borders—whether national, digital, symbolic, or embodied—remain central to contemporary experiences of identity, displacement, and power. As networks of movement and communication expand, the notion of a “borderless world” has both intensified and become more complex. Borders are simultaneously solidified

Shannon Garden-Smith \ Nava Messas Waxman \ Angel Callander June, 2025 Performative gesture; tracing the water along the philosopher's walk, Toronto June 2025 Performative gesture; To Life's thread.

Experimental documentry film, Inspired by a reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s Rita and the Rifle. Screening; Theatre Agora, September 2024 Danny Atari, Daniella Vinitski Mooney & Nava Messas Waxman This piece is a part of the Just Meeting / Doctes Assemblées series. If you want to see the other projects curated by TheatreAgora.ca, click here.

a two-part film program on dance, choreographic movements, and somatic gestures from York University’s 16mm archive. York University, Centre for Film & Theatre March, 6th, 2025 at 6pm Curated by Luka Kuplowsky, Dhvani Ramanujam, and Nava Messas Waxman live performance by Noriko Yamamoto. . The Rituals of the Moving Body is a two-part film program on dance, choreographic movements, and somatic gestures from York University’s 16mm archive. Spanning films from the 1940s-1980s,

This event is presented by mihyun maria kim, Nava Messas Waxman, Marc Nair, and Joshua D. Pilzer. Organized by Hong Kal & Nava Messas Waxman. November 12th, 2024, 2-5 pm Created by artists Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung, the Statue of the Girl for Peace commemorates the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, often euphemistically called "comfort women," during the Asia-Pacific War from the early 1930s to 1945. An estimated 200,000 young girls and women from colonized an

An Exercise in Speculative Method Making | The n-D::StudioLab Field Speculative Meteorology: Weather Channeled emerges from a series of...

Inscribed Body, Assemblies of gesture Nava Waxman, Elham Fatapour, Elsa Hashemi, Shabnam Afrand

Hannah Bullock | Shannon Garden-Smith | Laura Grier | Luke Kuplowsky | Nava Messas-Waxman | Cleo Sallis-Parchet | Ayse Karabag | Kezia Hall Making Possible worlds. Choreographies of Movement is an invitation for multiplicity bound by care, mutual responsibility, and radical practices of community building. It calls for a dismantling of colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, and ableist narratives through movement.[→add space here] Natalie Loveless states that "the crafting of a r

A History of Silencing Dance by Alireza Keymanesh Night Shift is produced by Citadel + Compagnie and co-presented with FFDN. October, 2023, Toronto, Canada Choreographer: Alireza Keymanesh Dancers, visual art: Clara Chemtov, Alireza Keymanesh, Nava Messas Waxman Music : Milad Movahedi Assistant: Jianna Neufeld Projection designer: Haoran Chang Camera: Felipe Lopez Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh NIGHT/SHIFT 2023

eNmotion is a collaborative research project that explore notions of experiential continuity through audiovisual interactive systems in performance installation. Writing: Choreographies of Mediation Part of the Vertical Studio 2023, n::D Studio Lab, under the direction of professor Mark-David Hosale

February 15th - 17th 2023 Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, Toronto, Canada Engaging elements from cueca (Chile’s national dance) and Kathak (A south asian classical dance form), the intercultural piece explores the possibility of code-switching between two movement languages to create smothering unrestrained by the boundaries of each. Bringing cueca and kathak into thoughtful and joyful conversation, thirteen dancers come together as a community in which these two forms e

Transmediating gestures across borders. My screendance video projection Enfolding Möbius screened at the Hilula opera event, Curated by Amit Hai Cohen and Neta Elkayam together with kabareh cheikhats and guests, create a North African Opera that blends between hafla, music, cabaret, documentary theater, Cinema and art exhibition with participating artists from all over the world. ​ Concept and artistic direction: Amit Hai Cohen and Neta Elkayam Co-Creator : Ghassan El Hakim

Drawing, choreography, space June, 2023, Toronto, Canada Naishi Wang, AI Lab.

March 2023, Moca, Toronto

Terrapolis: Threading through Body, Time and Space. Ilze Briede [Kavi] & Nava Waxman

Open work: with Maria Kravchencko & Jerusa Nasdaq