Naïma is an awarded actress, singer, dancer/choreographer and director.
A multi-faceted artist, Naïma graduates from the Paris Musical Academy in 2015. Her training includes the prestigious Rick Odums dance institute and the National Center for Living Arts, where she obtains a dance teacher diploma in 2019.
Between 2013 and 2019, Naïma works as a review leader for musicals such as “Around the world in 80 days”, “The Jungle Book”, and as a dancer for several prime-time French TV shows
More recently, Naïma started at the famed Broadway Dance Center, where she studies and hones her skills as a dancer and choreographer.
In 2013, she starts her collaboration with creative partner and homonym Naïma Chababi, from which a short visual piece named “Pretty” was born. The short was awarded numerous prizes worldwide for its screenplay and performances. After that first success, they craft a second short named “The Basement” , which was freshly awarded in the “Best Actress”, all categories at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival. Living between Paris and New York, Naïma is currently developing several projects including her first album as a singer and her new short film.
In 2020, she won the awards “Best song” and “Best music video” at the Festigious festival of Los Angeles and the Film Awards festival of New York for her original song “Unseen“. She also directed the music video.
In 2021, Naïma started performing in New York City as a fire dancer, after 3 years of practice.
She combines her professional ballet training and contemporary skills with her use of fire fans and palm torches, creating a unique approach to fire spinning. She fire danced for the prestigious event Future Horizon in Tuscany.
Naïma has a strong passion for combining different artistic forms and merging mediums, and her contemporary creations are inspired by Pina Bausch's Tanztheater. Naïma's recent choreographic endeavors have included "Tiffany Landmark Broadway Event" at the famous New York's Hudson Theater in March 2023 and the evocative "Rouge" performance at Brooklyn's Lighthouse in February 2023.
Her belief in contemporary dance's freedom drives her narrative construction, uniting diverse movement vocabularies to resonate profoundly with audiences. Naïma's collaborative spirit and dedication to pushing boundaries continue the evolution of dance, promoting cross-cultural dialogue.