About Nadia

Nadia Milford is an artist working across movement, text, performane and film to explore connections between body, people, and place. She seeks to shift perspectives and foster a culture of care, bringing people together through shared experiences. Passionate about cross-cultural exchange, Nadia investigates how shared histories manifest in everyday life and how perceptions can be transformed through meaningful, conscious dialogue.

Nadia’s works unfold across multiple forms and spaces. Her debut theatre work, The Last Princess of Lebanon, weaves dance and design to explore her great-grandmother’s migration story. The short documentary she developed during the creation of the work, A Delicate Hope a was Khallyrah Prize finalist for the North Carolina State University. Her latest collaboration, The Ocean Between Us, created with Diya Naidu and supported by DFAT’s Maitri Cultural Fund, explores the universal language of movement and its power to ; developed through residencies in India and Australia, the project now exists as both a live dance and theatre work and a digital residency archive and installation.

Earlier works include We, The Ocean (Swell Sculpture Festival), Ideal is Just an Idea (Dancenorth A.R.T. Residency), MAID (House Conspiracy Residency), and award-winning dance films screened internationally in Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany, India, and New Zealand.

Trained at Queensland University of Technology (BFA, Dance Performance), she has performed extensively across Australia as well as Europe, South Korea, Mongolia, India, and China for contemporary dance, theatre, and immersive performance. Some highlights include Edinburgh Fringe, Cairns Festival, Brisbane Festival, Busan and Beijing Dance Festivals, Horizon Festival, Floating Land, and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance. Major venues include QPAC, Metro Arts, QAGOMA, HOTA, Theatreworks, The Empire Theatre, and Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts.

Through her practice, Nadia invites audiences to reflect, move, and reimagine the stories we carry.

Nadia acknowledges the Yugambeh and Kombumerri language group as the traditional custodians of the land she lives and works on. She recognises, and honours, their rich history as well as their continually invaluable contributions to generations of storytelling, dance and cohesive community.