Woman with long, thick, dark hair and dark eyes. Her hair is thrown over one shoulder and she stands in front of a brick wall.

Nicole Nigro
dancer

Nicole Nigro (she/her) b.1981 in kanata (Canada) is a dance theatre artist, choreographer, facilitator, and mother, whose performative work explores effort, memory, and intuition. Examining the contact between body, voice, and space, she creates performance installations that are a synthesis of dance, somatic, vocal, and physical theatre practices. Nicole’s work has been presented in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, and the Middle East.

Nicole has performed with Anandam Dancetheatre (CA), Broken Jump Theatre (IT), Danny Grossman Dance Company (CA), Divadlo Continuo (CZ), Die Wolke Art Group (GR), Diyar Dance Theatre (PSE), Maré Hieronimus Dance Art (US), Stand Up Dance (CA/DE) and several independent choreographers. Nicole was a long-time faculty member at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s General School and Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre (CCDT), as well as the Artistic Director of CCDT’s Core Apprentice Company. She is an advocate for the artist-parent dyad, promoting the inclusion and celebration of careers in the art world. Nicole continues to pursue projects on the international level as she believes in the collective humanity born from cultural exchange. 

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Nicole danced in the 2009 Nuit Blanche durational performance, move.

For more information visit nicolebnigro.com