Nia Agustina
Photo: Maiko Miyagawa
Nia Agustina
Nia Agustina is the Artistic Director of Paradance Platform. Established in Yogyakarta in 2014, the platform hosts a festival every three months, working to support younger dance practitioners and choreographers. She was a co-curator at the Indonesia Dance Festival (2016–2024), and co-founded the performing arts critique and review website gelaran.id with her husband Ahmad Jalidu. She visited Japan through the Fellowship Program of The Japan Foundation Asia Center (2020) to research dance platforms in Japan, and was a part of the South East Asia Critical Ecologies residency program organized by Centre42 (Singapore). She was also a member of the IETM Global Connector program (2021–2022). Active as a curator, dramaturg, and writer, she expands the activities of emerging choreographers within Indonesia and abroad. In 2024, she was a jury member of the ZKB Prizes of Zurich Theater Spektakel. In 2025 she was a Visiting Fellow for the Saison Foundation. She received her Master’s in Mathematics Education in 2015 from Yogyakarta State University.
