Choreographer - Artistic Director
Nina Buisson is an internationally recognized Contemporary Dance Master Teacher and award-winning choreographer who has devoted her life to exploring avant-garde vistas of the European contemporary dance idiom. For more than fifteen years Nina has seeded her unconventional contemporary vocabulary throughout the world educating, choreographing and inspiring numerous students and souls. Her expressionistic Tanz-Theater –driven kinesthetic canvases paint a universe of boundless freedom, inner peace and sharing.
Nina is an "excellence” scholar from the PRINCESS GRACE Academy of Classical Dance and has obtained her musical training from the PRINCE RAINIER III Music Academy in Monaco. She is a holder of a professional teaching diploma in ballet and modern dance from the Cultural Ministry of France, Aix en Provence.
Nina Buisson has garnered critical plaudits and top prizes for her solo performance at several national dance competitions in France and Italy and is the recipient of the The Spirit Award for Choreographic Excellence at the Elan Awards.
She has danced as a soloist with Le Jeune Ballet Classique de France and La Compagnia Italiana del Balletto Classico; Andre de La Roche and Riccio Rigano; The European tour of "An American in Paris."Other solo dance credits include: "The Spectacle C'est Magique” at Disneyland Paris, "Spectrum Art Neo Classic” with Millard Hurley, and the world tour of the aquatic show "Sirella.” She has also danced in the film Occhio Pinocchio choreographed by Franco Miseria and La legende des Oiseaux choreographed by Laurent Biancotto.
Nina Buisson’s choreography has been presented at renowned New York City venues: "The Best of,” at The Danny Kaye Play House at Hunter College, "Festival on the Pier” at Hudson River Park, The 10th Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, The American Theatre of Actors, The Latin USA Film Festival Party Extravaganza at Madison Square Garden, The International Dance Festival 2004 at Duke Theater on 42 St., The Dicapo Opera Theater in 2005, STEPS Choreography Performance Showcase 2006, The JUILLIARD Senior Graduation Showcase 2005, La Mama Moves Dance Festival 2007 "Motion Makers,” The Motion Capture Lab held at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, HERE Art Center, and at White Wave 2007 Dumbo Dance Festival. Most recently, Nina Buisson Contemporary Move performed the piece "Entre Deux Mondes” for three nights at The Joyce Soho Theater in 2007, Jennifer Muller’s the Hatch in 2008, and at The Judson Mermorial Church for the "Avant-Garde Festival” in the summer of 2009.
Outside of New York, Nina has choreographed for: Bollywood Film & Music Awards Show in Atlantic City; Elan Awards at the Fashion Institute of Technology’01, ’02, ’03 and ’05; InSync Dance Theater at Hope College in Michigan; Freespace Dance Company at Montclair State University in New Jersey; Houston Metropolitan Dance Company; Christopher Huggins & Philadelphia School of Dance Arts.
Nina has taught all over the world including France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Mexico, and the U.S. Most notably, she has taught a company class with LE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL during the New York tour for the show "DELIRIUM" at Madison Square Garden. This summer, Nina is traveling to Mexico to the Invernadero Danza Oaxaca 2009 Festival and, in December, will travel to Italy for the 2nd International dance workshop "Yes We Dance!”
In addition to Nina’s ballet and modern proficiency, she is also trained in Yoga, Butoh and Tai-Chi. She currently resides in New York City where she is on faculty at Peridance Center, Ballet Arts at City Center and The Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory.
"I like to paint…curves of light and shadow. I love the spiral, shaping the energy in unconventional patterns. Dancing for me is like painting with a brush and touching the soul. It is my self-expression of freedom. Like poetry in motion, a painting without a frame, a reflection of feelings floating in the air…I breathe the magic of moving bodies, seeding energy in space. Whether the magic remains after the piece is finished - doesn’t matter. I feel fulfilled and free…"
Nina Buisson
Assistant Artistic Director
Maddy Kebedjis was born in France, where she trained in ballet under Rosella Hightower and modern under Money Robier at le Centre de Danse International Rosella Hightower in Cannes, France. In 1998, she moved to the U.S, where she studied at the Jose Limon Institute with Alan Danielson and Risa Steinberg. A year later, she got in the professional studies program where she had the opportunity to study intensively the Limon/Humphrey technique as well as study and perform with members of the Jose Limon Company.
Maddy Kebedjis has taught Ballet at the New York University for 5 years. She has been teaching at various schools around New York as well as at Queens Music and Dance school, where she recently started their pointe program. In 2000, she joined Industry, a modern dance company based in New York City with choreographer Naomi Ramirez with whom she performed in a number of venues in New York City. She choreographed, performed and taught for PMT Dance Studio and its annual showcases. Since 2001, Maddy Kebedjs has been dancing with Nina Buisson Contemporary Move. She performed with the company in venues such as the Bollywood Award Show in Atlantic City, the Latin Film Festival in Madison Square Garden, at the Duke Theater and the DiCapo Theater for the International Dance Festival in 2004 and 2005. She has been Nina Buisson's assistant since 2004, as well as designs costumes for the company. She assisted Nina Buisson in Grand Rapids Michigan teaching a choreography from the company's repertory to the INSYNC Company at the Hope College, as well as designed the costumes for their performance. In 2005, she†also made and designed costumes for the Julliard Senior Graduation Showcase, and the International Dance Festival. In 2006, she taught in subsitution for Nina Buisson for the Annual Statewide Dance Conference 2006 held by the Tennessee Association of Dance at the Nashville School of Arts.
Most recently Maddy kebedjis assisted Nina Buisson teaching a company class for LE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL New York tour for the show "DELIRIUM" at Madison Square Garden. In January 2007, she worked as a movement coordinator for the fashion shoot of the "Chinese Vogue" which will be published in June issue. In July 2007, she participated to the Motion Capture Lab held at The Steinhardt School of Education New York University. Maddy Kebedjis graduated in May 2006 from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in fashion styling. Maddy assisted and performed with Nina Buisson Contemporary Move in the production of “ Entre Deux Mondes” at Joyce Soho Theater in Ocober 2007. In July 2008, Maddy will be assisting Nina with the PeriChild Ensemble and the Peridance Summer Teen Intensive students as well as subsitute Nina’s essential stretch class.