MISSION:
Nicole Colbert Dance/Theatre is committed to providing a platform for multicultural and inter-generational performers to explore the intersectionality of dance and theatre.
BIO:
Nicole Colbert is a director/choreographer, performer, writer and educator. Her dance/theatre work ranges from experimental dance to re-imagined 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.
At the heart of every work is a consideration of the individual in relationship to the everyday world and the vulnerability, absurdity, and beauty that these experiences provoke.
PERFORMANCES:
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.
She has appeared in repertory and original work by Shapiro & Smith, Kay Nikishiwa (K2Dance), Ballet Mink, Judy Moss, and Noémie Lafrance, and worked as a choreographer with theatre companies such as The Medicine Show and Sponsored by Nobody.
Photo by Per Morten Abrahamsen
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING AND publications:
Nicole is an Adjunct Lecturer in English at CUNY. She has taught as a guest artist and conducted workshops in dance and dance/theatre at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), UW-Madison (Madison, WI), Royal Ballet Chance to Dance Program (London, UK), Pineapple Dance Studio (London, UK) and Hunter College (NYC, NY).
Publications: Dance Informa, The Village Voice, New York Spirit Magazine, and theatre criticism for Helen Mills’ offoffonline.com.
WHAT IS DANCE/THEATRE?
Roland Langer (1984) describes dance/theatre as a “performance form that combines dance, speaking, singing and chanting, conventional theater and the use of props, set, and costumes in one amalgam. It is performed by trained dancers. Usually there is no narrative plot; instead, specific situations, fears, and human conflicts are presented.”
What’s New: Nicole is co-founder of the Interactive Arts Ensemble (2020), a global collective of artists from the USA, Spain and South Africa, who seek to address topical issues of social injustice through technology and audience engagement.