Several times a year, MashUp Contemporary Dance Company welcomes advanced dancers to attend a pay-what-you-choose master class with MashUp artists and/or guest instructors. Join us in May for class with Nina Flagg!
Nina Flagg is a LA native, Dance Artist, Choreographer, and Educator. Her movement foundations began with Gymnastics, Classical Ballet, and Modern Dance followed by studies in West African Dance, Tap, Jazz, and Hip-Hop/Street Dance. She attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) and excelled under the tutelage of the acclaimed LACHSA dance faculty. After graduating from LACHSA, she went on to obtain her BA in Sociology with a Specialization in Communications from UCLA.
Over the past two decades, Nina’s work has evolved as an embodied intersection between multiple movement traditions, explored through the lens of Hip-Hop consciousness. The plurality of her training and practice has lent itself to a diverse career in concert dance, television, and academia. As an educator, Nina has been on faculty at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), UCLA, and Connecticut College and served as guest faculty for Bennington College and LMU. She has worked with such artists as Prince, Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Solange, Will Smith, and J Balvin. Her choreography has been featured on The Grammy’s, TV Land Awards, ABC, ESPN, NBC/Peacock, Flight Path Dance Company, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Her television appearances include The Oscars, The Today Show, MTV’s TRL, and Good Morning America. In summer of 2021, Nina appeared in the documentary film AILEY which was released in theaters nationwide after its premier at Sundance Film Festival.
Currently, Nina is continuing her practice as a dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, and guest artist for organizations such as CLI Studios, LA Dance Project, and Everybody Dance LA!. In January of 2023, Nina joined the faculty of USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, teaching courses in Hip-Hop and Dancehall studies. As a BIPOC artist and educator, Nina remains passionate about creating curricular strategies for equitable, multi-generational engagement in dance education and live performance.