BIOGRAPHY:
Nicole Colbert is a director/choreographer, performer, writer and educator. Her dance/theatre
work ranges from experimental dance to re-iminagined works of classical drama, utilizing a physical vocabulary that fuses contemporary, modern, jazz and ballet with elements of theatre
drawn from Gaga, LeCoq and Viewpoints principles. Nicole has shown her work in New York, New Orleans, London, and Denmark. In NYC at Dixon Place, Green Space, Hunter College, Mark Morris Studio, Movement Research, The Tank, Triskelion Arts, 92nd St Y, and The Craft at Governor’s Island, and in festivals such as The Jazz Dance Conference (New Orleans, LA), The Newburgh Illuminated Festival (Newburgh, NY), and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival (New Orleans, LA). She has presented evening length and split bill programs at Krudttønden Theater and LilleHallen (Copenhagen, DK), The CAC-Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA), The New Orleans Jazz Museum (New Orleans, LA), BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Brooklyn, NY), Green Space (LIC, NY), and Dixon Place (NYC, NY). Her most recent production, Last Stop: Desire, a dance/theatre adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, received a grant from the Jazz and Heritage Foundation for project development and was performed as part of the 2019 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in New Orleans, LA.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
MA Theatre- Brooklyn College-CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
MA- Dance History and Choreography,- Trinity/Laban Centre, London, UK