Nia Love is a dancer and choreographer based in New York City.

She is known for her spiritual relationships to movement and performance,[1] as well as her personal work that is critical of structural racism and examines the role of women in dance through her poetry, movement and art.

Love apprenticed with the Cuban National Ballet in Havana, Cuba in 1978 and 1986.

[4] Regarding her work's individuality, she has cited inspiration from her father and her emphasis on family, as well as traditional Japanese dance influences, having studied Butoh under Min Tanaka.

In the early 1990s, Love taught an Alternative Learning Program in the Arts with a focus on African culture in Los Angeles.