Naomi Gwynn is a dance artist and choreographer based in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal. Naomi has participated in numerous performances and showcased choreographic work across Canada, Europe, and the United States. In 2019 Naomi performed as a Junior company member with Cobos Mika Dance Company and In 2023 she completed GibneyPRO under the direction of Alexandra Wells where she worked closely with Adam Barruch, Hannah Garner, Elia Mrack, Rena Butler, and Laja Field. She was a 2023 choreographic fellow and artist in residency with Danse à la Carte, a 2024 artist in residency with the Margie Gillis Dance Foundation. Naomi’s choreographic work was awarded for ‘Outstanding Choreography’ by the FRANKIE Awards, and has received the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, the City of Ottawa, and the City of Montréal. Her formal dance training includes work with Rubberband Dance Group, Micaela Taylor, Margie Gillis, GALLIM, and Sidra Bell Dance New York.

Naomi’s choreographic work is at the intersection of contemporary dance and theater in an effort to generate humanizing dance-theater works that explore existential questions. More specifically, works that unpack the more eccentric, neurotic, deranged, and complicated aspects of personality and society. Her intention is to cultivate empathy, introspection, and intimacy with a viewer.

Her work plays within the space between familiarity and distortion seeking to highlight the extraordinary through manipulation of the mundane or ordinary features of life. She applies magical realism to create vignettes of hyperreality.