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"I see my craftsmanship developing over time, a constant and everlasting pursuit of knowledge and understanding. I allow myself to remain open, to inhale alternative interests through periods of experimentation. My purpose as a movement choreographer is to craft a vocabulary that is recognised as being unique to my work. I am searching for the ability to explore pure movement that is focused and minimal but that also has the capacity to transmit complex emotion, creating dance that is intelligently designed whilst remaining simplistic and truthful. "
Nicole returned to Newcastle upon Tyne in 2005 after completing her professional training at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, majoring in choreographic technique. In the same year Nicole received her first Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts award to create Packaged in a Safe Environment, a site responsive work performed in a pedestrian overpass in Newcastle. Nicole then remarked on the fact that the dancers and her work could be and should be performed on any surface in any area, this creating Surface Area Dance Theatre.
In 2007 Nicole visited Tokyo, Japan to take part in extensive workshops led by Yoshito Ohno, also meeting the honoured Kazuo Ohno, co founders of Butoh. Nicole acknowledges this time as a gift, the experience proving crucial to Nicole's artistic practice and the future direction Surface Area Dance Theatre, so much so that she returned in 2009 to delve further into the practice and the universal philosophy of Butoh.
Nicole is North East Young Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 and in 2009 became a Youth Ambassador for The Prince's Trust.
In 2007 Surface Area Dance Theatre received a start up award from The Prince's Trust. It’s an honour for Nicole to now be in a position to encourage young people towards a career in the arts. Nicole’s first venture as a Princes Trust youth ambassador is to become a member of The Young People’s Advisory Group for the Tutu Foundation UK on the development of Conversations for Change.
"Creative inspiration is from personal experience, a very precious jewel in the perspiring tightly gripped palm of a person embarking on a life long journey "
Since graduating in 2007 (BA Hons Contemporary Dance) Nadia has worked extensively in the North East in both creative and administrative roles. These have included Festival Coordinator (Dance the World '08), Creative Projects Coordinator and Academy Administrator, all at Dance City.
Nadia believes in the power of dance to transform the lives of individuals and to build relationships within communities.
This belief has led her to create a partnership with OYO (Namibia) where she visits annually to train young artists using dance as a way of raising awareness of AIDS/HIV amongst young people excluded from education.
Tamara McLorg has been essential to this development and Nadia looks forward to returning to Detmold to work with Tamara, Janice Parker and Chris Benstead where she will teach contemporary technique on the SommerResiDance Program 2010.
Nadia teaches weekly on Dance City's Foundation Program, Queen's Hall Youth Dance and Royalty Theatre Academy Sunderland.
Nadia joined Surface Area in 2008, her first project being Nullius and has worked on every project since then. Highlights for her include Nullius and Yacho No Mori.
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