"I am a Connecticut girl at heart now based in the Washington, DC area focused
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Nickel is a Dancer, Choreographer, and dance teacher originally from Windsor, CT. She began dancing at the age of four at Northern Connecticut Ballet where she danced for fourteen years. Nicole began to explore different styles of dance when she reached high school where she took two years of Hip Hop at Alyce Carella Dance Centre before matriculating at the University of Virginia to study Mechanical Engineering. In order to keep feeding her passion for dance Nicole joined the Virginia Dance Company, University Dance Club and X-tasee Dance Crew while in Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to this, she studied Modern and Dance Choreography with Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp. After college, Nicole returned to Connecticut and taught Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance at Alyce Carella Dance Center in West Hartford, CT and has performed with Equilibrium Dance Theatre and NYC Dance Arts. She has also performed at WNBA basketball games, the Hot 97 Summer Jam Festival and choreographed for music videos and musicals such as Milk Carton Molly an Off Broadway Musical and American Fab Kid by Briannagh D!
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Take a peek into what inspires me! |
As you can see I love things that are sleek and chic with a bold edgyness. I think this mirrors my dancing style in many ways... I grew up training in classical ballet, so I have a refined and sometimes restrained movement quality to my dancing but I always danced to hip hop in my home growing up which was much more freeing and expressive. Today I teeter back and forth between structure and chaos always seeking to find the perfect balance in dance and in life :)
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