After winning the Silver Medal in the RAD Margot Fonteyn Awards, Adelaide-born, Nicola started her professional dancing career with the Queensland Ballet Professional Year Program in 2010 and 2011, where she performed in company productions such as Swan Lake, Carmen, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, King Arthur and many more. Moving to Europe she danced in Dortmund Ballet (2012) before moving to the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (FKA the Royal Ballet of Flanders) in 2013. 

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Through working in Flanders, Nicola accomplished a highly versatile career, dancing as a Soloist in a full spectrum of classical ballet and contemporary repertoire. She has performed works by and created with influential dance masters such as William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Pina Bausch, Anne-Theresa de Keersmaker, Martha Graham, Marcia Haydee, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Wayne McGregor, Andonis Fondiadakis, Johan Inger and many more. Her career has given her the opportunity to immerse herself in a diverse range of dance techniques such as Gaga, LEV training, Counter-technique, Forsythe improvisation methods, and Streamflow method. 

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She worked as a choreographic collaborative assistant for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for the Golden Globe featured film 'Girl' (2016) and also 'Radioactive' (2018).

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Nicola is studying for her Bachelor in Psychology at the University of South Australia, with an ambition to use her degree to create sensitive and abstract dance narratives that explore social and emotional phenomenons, using classical line to inform her dynamic contemporary style.

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​Since 2014, she has created 9 works for the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen's in-house choreographic series 'Choreolab', as well as exploring movement direction through the short films "The Vital Escape Up' (2019), 'Familiar' (2021), and 'Imbolic' (2023).​ In 2021, her piece 'The Glass Ceiling' was chosen as a finalist for the Hannover 35th Choreographic competition, winning the Hamburg Junior Ballet Commission Prize and mentioned as 'New Name to Watch' by Gerard Davis in the Dance Europe's 2021 Critics Choice awards. ​Nicola has premiered two works in the US, creating 'The Exist List' under the Eleo Pomare–Glen Conner Choreographic Residency at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta and 'Two People in Love Never shake Hands', under the BalletX Choreographic Fellowship in Philadelphia. The main duet from 'Two People in Love Never Shake Hands' was selected as a semi-finalist in the 37th Hannover Choreographic competition, performed in Une Mare di Danza Gala, Dance for Life Gala in BalletNBD and the Royal Opera House International Draftworks Festival in London​.​

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Coming in 2025: 

After concluding her work with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in January, Nicola is pursuing her freelance choreographic career, based out of Antwerp in Belgium. Working in Australia giving choreographic workshops at Queensland Ballet's Pre-Professional Program and Victorian College of the Arts. In Europe, she will create a new works for Origen Festival in Switzerland, the National Ballet of Albania, Royal Ballet School of Antwerp and Conservatoire of Professional Dance Madrid and will be working as a choreographic assistant and dancer with Akram Khan on two separate projects. 

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