BIOGRAPHY
Born outside of London and raised in Hong Kong and Switzerland, Nicole von Arx (she/her) is an immigrant choreographer based in Brooklyn. Her works, spanning theatre, dance, opera, and film, are highly emotional and dramatic, inviting viewers to either sit back or actively participate.
Nicole has presented her works at notable venues such as The Joyce Theatre, Stanford Live, The New Victory Theatre, Joe’s Pub, Wolf Trap, Judson Memorial Church, and Théâtre Nuithonie. She has received choreographic commissions from NW Dance Project, Edmonton Opera, Whim W’Him, SALT2, Brooklyn Ballet, and the LINK Choreography Festival.
She is a 2020 recipient of The Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow and a 2023 NYSCA grant recipient. Nicole has been an artist in residence at GLUE, Dance Initiative, Leimay Incubator, and a 2020 Lauréate of a Gland Culture Grant.
As a performer, she has worked with Carte Blanche (Norway), Bryan Arias, The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House (UK), Chicago Lyric Opera, Company XIV, Loni Landon, and Romeo Castellucci.
Since 2014, she has been creating under the name NVA & Guests.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Nicole von Arx offers an advanced-level dynamic contemporary class that incorporates elements of floor work, improvisation, and her latest choreography research. She encourages you to embrace physical and emotional effort and explore the extent of your body and mind’s capacity. Her warm-up is a series of challenging exercises focusing on isolating, strengthening, aligning, and balancing the body. This will lead into improvisation tasks emphasizing sensation, timing, and space. The class culminates in a complex phrase work allowing dancers to discover Nicole’s movement vocabulary and musicality. This is an advanced class!