Nina Santes made her stage debut as a puppeteer. Since 2008 she has collaborated as a performer with many choreographers. She is the author of Désastre (2012), in collaboration with the composer Kasper Toeplitz, Transmorphonema, a duet with the choreographer Daniel Linehan (Vif du Sujet SACD 2014), Self made man (2015). In March 2016, she co-wrote a duet with Célia Gondol: A leaf. The piece is recreated for the Avignon Festival in 2019. In 2018, she created Hymen Hymne, a piece for 5 performers. The same year, she received the SACD New Choreographic Talent Prize. In 2020, she created République Zombie, for three performers. She also created (Though a silent orchestra, they were full of) ELEGIES, a sound and choreographic performance for the voice of a child and a group of traditional singers, for the MIR Festival - Athens. In 2021, the Lyon Opera Ballet invited her to create a solo, LA VENERINA, for the dancer Elsa Monguillot. From 2022 onwards, she opens a new cycle of creations, Beauty Glow Tanning Studio. She is an associate artist at the Atelier de Paris CDCN from 2019 to 2021, then at the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans as well as at the Manège de Reims, with La Fronde, from 2021 to 2024.
