About Nadia

Nadia Milford is a dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist whose work explores the connections between body, people, and place. With a rich background in movement-based performance, 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.

She has performed across Australia and internationally, working across contemporary dance, theatre, and immersive performance. From large-scale productions to intimate, site-specific works, her experience spans festivals, independent collectives, and major institutions. She has collaborated with a diverse range of artists and companies, performing in theatre spaces, public installations, and unconventional settings that challenge the relationship between performer and audience.

As a maker, Nadia’s works often unfold across multiple forms and spaces. The Last Princess of Lebanon, her debut full-length theatre work, weaves dance, film, and text to explore her Lebanese family history. Her short documentary A Delicate Hope, created during this process, was a finalist for the Khallyrah Prize (North Carolina State University).

Her screen and installation works include We, The Ocean (Swell Sculpture Festival), Ideal is Just an Idea (Dancenorth’s A.R.T. Residency), MAID (House Conspiracy Residency), and award-winning dance films that have been screened at festivals across Australia and internationally, including Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany, India, and New Zealand. Her latest collaboration, The Ocean Between Us, created with Indian artist Diya Naidu, explores the universal language of movement and was supported by DFAT’s Maitri Cultural Fund.

Through performance, Nadia seeks to open spaces for reflection, conversation, and connection. Her work is an invitation—to listen, to move, and to 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.