Dancefloor Utopias

Daniela Ordóñez Guerrero, aka NINA NINA, is a multidisciplinary artist with musical training and origins in hip-hop and house music. Their music travels through the Latin rhythms of her native Veracruz coast and the world, incorporating the fabulousness of vogue and the odysseys of electronic leftfield. From live concerts to playful and daring DJ sets, they propose eclectic journeys for audiences who love to party. Club queen of the queer underground, with a national and international presence, the language of NINA NINA is translated into synthesizers, mixers and rhythm machines. NINA NINA recently toured in Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina, where they are recognized in the LGBTQIA+ circles and underground circuits. They are also part of LAS HIJAS DEL RAP, an all female/non binary hip hop collective that re-appropriates tools of urban culture to strengthen joyful, pleasurable, and audacious feminist narratives in Latin America.

Over the past 15 years, Found Sound Nation has worked with a diverse array of institutions and partners, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Doris Duke Foundation, TED, MIT, The New School, and many more, to create music-centered socially impactful programming. These initiatives - from songwriting workshops with incarcerated youth to music-making & listening seminars for MIT entrepreneurs - cemented our belief in the transformative potential of co-creation across geographic, cultural, and demographic boundaries. In 2012, we launched OneBeat, a groundbreaking music diplomacy program in partnership with the U.S. State Department. OneBeat brought together outstanding musicians from around the world to collaborate, create, and develop new models for civic and social engagement through music.