Chania Wilson is a Raleigh, NC native with a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She currently attends Duke University to obtain her MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis.

Chania studied with Janet Lilly, Maurice Watson, BJ Sullivan, Clarice Young, and many others. She performed in “James” by Francine Ott and was a part of the American College Dance Association adjudicated cast in Richmond, VA. She also fell in love with Screen Dance under the instruction of Robin Gee. Her film, “the second hand” was screened in the Greensboro Dance Film Festival in 2021.

Maintaining her dance connection in Raleigh during college, she worked as a guest performer with Black Irish Baile directed by Ronnie West in 2019. Following graduation, she has continued to work in dance film directing as well as choreographing music videos.

In 2021, she returned to her alma mater Enloe High School and taught honors level Modern, Jazz, and Whole Body Wellness. Additionally, she was the Director of Enloe Charity Ball in 2022, raising $180,000 in 3 months for Alliance Medical Ministry.

Currently, she is a board member and dancer of Black Box Dance Theatre. She was a 2023 Artist in Residence for North Carolina Dance Festival and premiered her new work, “For The Mind” in November 2023 in Duke’s November Dances and the NC Dance Festival in January. She started her dance company, Nine Movement Collective, December 2023. Her newest work will premiere in April 2024 with Nine Movement Collective.