Teoma Naccarato is a choreographer and media artist, originally from Canada. Working across live, live-streamed, durational, and one-to-one formats, she creates performance-installations that interrogate the mediation of bodies and identities within techno-cultures. Her practice engages critically with surveillance and biomedical technologies, exploring intimacy and the limits of bodily measurement and control.
Since 2013, Naccarato has collaborated with composer and computer scientist John MacCallum, now working as Friction Field Collaborative. Together, they have created the bodies of work III and Im/mediations, and developed a somatic practice called Interstitial Listening. Their collaboration moves between choreography, music composition, and technological experimentation, examining how perception shifts with our position, attention, and access to mediated representations. Her artistic research has been supported through residencies at IRCAM in Paris, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CLOUD/DansLab in The Hague, and Lake Studios Berlin.
Artistic practice and writing are entangled in Naccarato’s research on how movement shapes knowledge—and how the ways we make sense of movement influence which bodies and experiences become intelligible and valued. Her PhD at Coventry University examined the critical appropriation of technologies as artistic practice, an inquiry she continued as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Dance Research. Her scholarship has appeared in Performance Research, Performance Philosophy, Leonardo, TEMPO, and the Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices. Recent experiments with AI-generated movement investigate bodily recognition, agency, and authorship, while her developing monograph, How Movement Comes to Matter: A Genealogy of the Choreographic Gaze, examines the ethics and aesthetics of representing movement.
Her pedagogical approach emerges from choreography and cross-disciplinary collaboration, where working together involves negotiating different habits of attention, methods, and expectations. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in contemporary dance, choreography, dance and technology, and performance philosophy at universities in Canada, the United States, and Germany. Through workshops, mentoring, and doctoral supervision, she invites artists, researchers, and students to examine what informs their practice and what remains difficult to articulate or share.
Naccarato is currently Lead for the Centre for Pedagogy Futures and Research Fellow in the Centre for Blended Realities at Falmouth University. She facilitates Transversal Imaginaries and the Centre’s Research Development Programme, and co-directs the Provocations Project with John MacCallum and Jessica Rajko. Through these platforms, she develops formats for collective inquiry across disciplinary, institutional, and cultural boundaries. Her editorial and advisory work includes serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices and the board of the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines in Chicago.
She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University, an MFA in Dance & Technology from The Ohio State University, and a PhD in Choreography from Coventry University.