Thanks to The Pew Center of Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, Nichole will be engaging in a year-long process of choreographic research with Wendy Houstoun (formerly of DV8) acting as a mentor.  The process includes a visit to London as well as rehearsals in Philadelphia with a group of dancers.   In order to share this experience with NCDC’s audiences, Nichole will be keeping a blog filled with thoughts, musing, pictures, and videos about the process.  

To visit Nichole’s blog, please visit http://canusodanceresearch.blogspot.com/.

Here is a sample from Nichole’s blog:

…Most people follow their instincts when making work - i know I do; instincts which are built from all aspects of one’s experiences - both in and out of the studio. And this is part of the beauty and mystery of making; the world filtered through someone’s mind and back out again. Even if these instincts appear to serve you well there comes a moment to look at them a little closer… and with some distance. Working in this way, with artists that don’t have much knowledge of my work and my habits is allowing me to see my dances and their structure with a renewed perspective. Is allowing me to circle back around to the essential elements that have been there all along. Sometimes buried a bit or overshadowed by other concerns. It is also bringing up questions. Lots of questions for me to sit with….