Nailah Cunningham (they/them) was born and raised in Portland Oregon. They began their movement training at non profit arts school Portland Metro Arts where they trained in ballet. After graduating they chose to pursue movement as a career and moved to New York to start training on scholarship at The Ailey School. While in training they performed at Lincoln Center with the company in Alvin Aliey’s Memoria and soon graduated in 2020. Throughout 2021 they worked with 98 Art Collective as their featured movement artist. In 2022 became member of a stunt and dance company in New York STREB Extreme Action. They now reside in Portland and have performed with The Holding Project ‘Leviathan’. Now they have gathered movers and are the creative director for Liminal Movement Collective.