http://www.teachingarts.org/danceQuestions/ en-us Wed, 26 May 2004 07:00:00 GMT Wed, 26 May 2004 15:39:21 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss UserLand Frontier v9.0 rssUpdates hedabel@kern.org (Heather Dabel) hedabel@kern.org (Heather Dabel) <table align="right" border="1" cellpadding="7"><tr><td> <img src="http://wwwStatic.kern.org/images/danceQuestions/richter.jpg" height="305" width="220" border="0" alt="nicolerichter: Nicole Richter"><br> <i class="very small">Photo copyright Steven J. Gelberg</i></p> <b>Nicole Richter</b><br> <i>"Don't let anything stop you from<br> doing the thing you love."</i></td></tr></table> <p><b>NICOLE RICHTER</b> works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher with AXIS Dance Company in Oakland, California. She has previously served as Co-Artistic Director and Education Director, launching the company's acclaimed Dance Access and Dance Access/KIDS! education programs for students of all ages with and without disabilities. As a dancer with AXIS, she has originated roles in commissioned pieces by artists including Bill T. Jones, Stephen Petronio, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, and Sonya Delwaide. Her choreography has been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award, and she has been the recipient of four California Arts Council Artist in Residence awards. Nicole discovered dance by accident while at Oberlin College, and became interested in physically integrated dance while working with CandoCo Dance Company in London. During her years in England, Nicole also founded Detours Performance Company and gained a Professional Diploma in Community Dance Studies and an MA in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre. As an independent dance artist, Nicole choreographs and teaches modern dance, Contact Improvisation, Pilates and creative dance to all ages. She is particularly interested in collaborating with artists of disparate media, in structured improvisation as a tool for performance, and in clambering about shamelessly in odd spaces. Nicole's latest work-in-progress, her daughter Kisa, premiered in October 2002. The interactive portion of this site is closed, although you can still read the answers given to other students in the Recent Questions area of the site.