Born in Ivory Coast, Nadia Beugré made her first appearance in 1995 as a member of the Dante Theatre. Two years later, she became a founding member of Béatrice Kombé’s groundbreaking, all-female dance ensemble, TchéTché, with whom she toured for years to critical acclaim across Africa, Europe and North America. With Béatrice, Nadia Beugré understands that the stage is a 'tatami', a ring where anything can happen.

Following a training at Germaine Acogny’s Ecole des sables in Senegal, she joined in 2009 Ex.e.r.ce., Mathilde Monnier’s programme for talented, up-and-coming choreographers at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. 
She was soon staging productions of her own, including the still-touring solo Quartiers libres ('Free Rein') in 2012.

A second decisive encounter marked Nadia's career. Alain Buffard, for whom she performed Mauvais genre and Baron Samedi pushed her to understand why she kept questioning the body, gender and nudity. “He was generous, available and an extraordinary listener, but that didn't prevent him from also sharing his dark side with us. In the same way, I question this dark side in me, the darkness in the light that makes us complex beings.”

Her work merges traditional folk dances, contemporary experimental dance and urban/hip-hop influences. The New York Times wrote in praise of her work: “It’s harrowing, both in action and sound; Ms. Beugré knows how to make a crowd trust her just as, in a split second, she knows how to knock the air out of people. She’s wild, like the wind.”

Legacy, a ritualized homage to the power of women rebels in the Ivorian war of independence, premiered at the La Bâtie festival in Geneva in 2015 and has also been performed at the Festival d'Automne in Paris, among other events. After Tapis Rouge (2017) and Roukasskass Club (2019), Beugré presented L’Homme rare (2020), an all-male quintet performance, premiered at Montpellier danse, and performed at the Festival d’automne à Paris – Théâtre de la Ville, at the Spielart Festival in Munich, at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and Festival TransAmériques in Montreal.

The same year, she directed choreography for Atem, a musical piece of the Darmstadt’s Staatstheater, a second creation with the Staatstheater Darmstadt was be premiered in October 2022, Entre deux.

Beugré also performs in works by fellow choreographers, such as Seydou Boro, Alain Buffard, Dorothée Munyaneza, Bernardo Montet, Boris Charmatz or in 2022 Robyn Orlin.

Nadia Beugré is since 2021 associate artist to the Briqueterie in Vitry-sur-Seine (France) and associate artist to ICI CCN de Montpellier (2023-2024).

With Virginie Dupray, Nadia Beugré has founded her own dance company in Montpellier Libr’Arts, a platform for production, touring but also training between France and Ivory Coast.

Nadia Beugré has just been awarded the 2023 SACD Prize for New Choreographic Talent.