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, before moving to Europe to dance in Dortmund Ballet (2012) and  Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (FKA the Royal Ballet of Flanders) in 2013. 

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Over 12 years working in Flanders, Nicola accomplished a highly versatile career, performing in works from 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 creatively immerse herself in a diverse range of dance techniques such as Gaga, LEV training, Counter-technique, Forsythe improvisation methods, Cunningham 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) and to Akram Khan with his production of 'Lady Macbeth' in 2025/26.​

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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.​ In 2021, her piece 'The Glass Ceiling' won her the Hamburg Junior Ballet Commission Prize at the Hannover 35th Choreographic competition and and she was 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, Brussels City Ballet Gala, The BalletX 20th Anniversary Retrospect at the Joyce and the Royal Opera House International Draftworks Festival in London​. ​

Nicola is studying a Bachelor in Psychology at the University of South Australia, in order to create nuanced dance works that explore social and emotional phenomenons, using classical line to inform her dynamic contemporary style.

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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. She created new works for the Origen Cultural Festival in Switzerland, the National Ballet of Albania, Royal Ballet School of Antwerp and Conservatoire of Professional Dance Madrid. 

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