Nicole Rose Bond
dancer

Nicole Rose Bond graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Dance cum laude from York University in 2005. She has felt privileged to perform works by many esteemed choreographers including Patricia Beatty, Tom Brouillette, Susan Cash, Bill Coleman, David Earle, Danny Grossman, Ryan Graham Hinds, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Learie McNicholl, Andrea Nann, Yvonne Ng, John Oswald, Peter Quanz, Peter Randazzo and Andrea Spaziani.

As a teacher, Nicole was a course director in Graham Technique and Contemporary Dance at York University, and has taught dance classes and workshops at Canada’s National Ballet School, Arts Umbrella, Modus Operandi, and within the Toronto District School Board. Nicole served on the Toronto Arts Council Advisory Panel, and as a member of the Dance Collection Danse ‘Encore: Hall of Fame’ Committee. 

Through her work as both a performer and a teacher, Nicole’s goal is to empower others to effect conscious change in the world whilst honouring those who have come before us. Nicole is beyond grateful that her vocation encompasses doing what she loves and is humbled by, and indebted to, the unique and beautiful arts community that she calls home.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Nicole performed in land | body | breath at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; the premiere in Toronto of who we are in the dark and subsequent performances in Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, Whitehorse, Mexico and The Netherlands; and in the film cycle her body as words.