Chania Wilson
Chania Wilson is a Raleigh, NC-based choreographer, educator, and performer committed to creating movement spaces rooted in memory, collaboration, and embodied knowledge. She holds an MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis from Duke University and a BFA in Choreography and Performance with a minor in Arts Administration from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her foundation includes eight years of competitive dance training, which she integrates into her modern dance pedagogy through a blend of precision, musicality, and athleticism.
Chania is the founder and Artistic Director of Nine Movement Collective, a professional modern dance company focused on community-based collaboration, and the creator of Ignite Dance Intensive, the first county-wide intensive of its kind, which received the United Arts Community Spotlight Award in 2024. Her choreography has been featured in Duke’s November Dances (2023, 2025), NC Dance Festival, Tobacco Road Dance Productions, and will premiere on the NCDF Mainstage in October 2025. Her dance films have been screened in ADF’s Movies by Movers and the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, where she was also invited to speak as a panelist.
She was selected as a 2025 mentee in the Camille A. Brown Mentorship Program and is a recipient of both the Snapdragon Fund Grant and the Duke Dean’s Research Award. Currently, Chania serves as an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina Central University, a Dance Instructor at Arts Together, and a Company Choreographer and Instructor for The Dance Attic, while continuing to build choreographic and interdisciplinary work through Nine Movement Collective.
