ABOUT ME

After winning the Silver Medal in The RAD Adeline Genee awards, Australian-born, Nicola started her professional dancing career with the Queensland Ballet trainee program in 2010 and 2011, where she performed in many company productions. Moving to Europe in 2012, Nicola danced briefly with Dortmund Ballet before moving to the Ballet van Vlaanderen (formally known Royal Ballet of Flanders) in 2013. 

​

Nicola has danced many prominent roles in a broad spectrum of full length 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, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Wayne McGregor, Andonis Fondiadakis, Johan Inger, Jan Martins and many more. Her career has given her the opportunity to submerse herself in a diverse range of dance techniques such as Gaga, LEV training, Counter-technique, Forsythe improvisation methods, and Streamflow method. 

​

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

​

Since 2014, she has created 8 works for the Ballet van 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 2020, her piece 'The Glass Ceiling' was chosen as a finalist for the Hannover 35th Choreographic competition, winning the Hamburg Junior Ballet Commission Prize. 

​

'The Glass Ceiling' also earned her a mention in Dance Europe's 2021 Critics Choice awards as a 'Talent to Watch' by Gerard Davis.

​

In 2021, she was chosen as the winner of the Ballet-X choreographic fellowship program, but due to scheduling difficulties was unable to fulfil the position and will now be undertaking this fellowship in 2024. 

​

Nicola is currently studying a part-time Bachelor in Psychology at the University of South Australia to supplement her ambitions to create choreographic work that explores the mind and themes of human condition in a relatable context and to better understand the necessary socio-psychological components to healthy relationships. Her aim is to create work where social and emotional themes are explored through sensitive and abstract dance narratives, using classical line to inform her dynamic contemporary style. 

​

IN 2023: Nicola made a new full-length work 'The Exist List' under the Eleo Pomare–Glen Conner Choreographic Residency at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, USA. Her work 'Somniloquy' was commissioned for the Gent Classical Music Festival in Gent, Belgium. Her piece 'Two People in Love Never Shake Hands' was selected as a semi-finalist in the 37th Hannover Choreographic competition and was performed in the Une Mare di Danza Gala in in Genoa, Italy. 

​

WHATS NEXT? In 2024 Nicola will be following through with the Ballet X Choreographic Fellowship in Philadelphia, USA. She will be representing the Ballet van Vlaanderen in the Royal Opera House International Draftworks Festival in London and will be creating a full-length evening for Dance Cyprus Festival. 

​