Eco Elegies Bay Area Cast
Meet Nabra Nelson
“Nabra is excited to explore Mixed-icism through Eco Elegies because she believes that mixed people will save the world. Those who embrace their mixed identities have the ability to hold complicated and even sometimes seemingly contradictory truths within themselves and within others.
That is Mixed-icism – the ability to embody complexity – not to try to simplify it, but to accept people and the world in all of their contradictions and messiness. Mixed-icism breaks the boxes.”
About Nabra (she/her)
Nabra Nelson is a multi-disciplinary artist from Egypt, Nubia, and California. She works with arts and community organizations across the nation to strengthen community and amplify under-heard voices. She is a founding company member of the Seattle-based MENA theater company, Dunya Productions, a founding company member of the Milwaukee-based womxn-of-color performance troupe Heard Space Arts Collective, leads the Nubian Foundation for Preserving a Cultural Heritage, and is the co-host of the Kunafa & Shay Theater Podcast, and a playwright. She is a professional DEI consultant with Avent Diversity Consulting and a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Community Support
Dancing Earth’s Eco Elegies project is not possible without the support of our community. Help us develop this new work, support the artists we work with, and continue to activate our communities in the spirit of our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global-Indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.
