Resumé

Professional Experience

Click the image above for an overview of Nichelle's accomplishments

Writing

Dance Advantage (danceadvantage.net) ~ April 2008 – current
Blog Author/Creator/Editor

Organizes, develops, and writes all content for the website, requiring some technical knowledge of computers. The blog provides a resource to dance students, teachers, and parents with articles ranging in subject from tips on technique and kinesiological concepts to improving class structure, reviews and news from the dance world, and posts that highlight products and resources available on the web.

Freelance Dance Writer ~ Current/Ongoing

• Content writer for DanceStudioOwner.com
• Content writer/critic for Dance Source Houston
• Featured writer or contributor of content for online magazines and websites including DanceStudioOwner.com, EzineArticles, Dancer Universe, and PTA.org.

Performance

Company Engagements

Frame Dance Productions, Houston, TX ~ 2010
Collaborating dance artist

Suchu Dance, Houston, TX ~ 2002 – 2003, 2009
Company member

Allied Motion Dance Company, Altoona, PA ~ 2000 – 2002
Company member and Featured soloist

Contemporary Dance Company (director: Pat Heigel-Tanner), State College, PA ~ 2000 – 2002
Company member

Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, State College, PA ~ 2000 and 2002
Company apprentice and later, guest artist

Independent Projects

Crease ~ dance film premiered May 2010
Frame Dance Productions (view Crease at the website); Choreography: Lydia Hance (Houston, TX)

Dancing Diana ~ August 2009 (click here to view my solo via YouTube)
Choreography: Lydia Hance; Venue: Freneticore Fringe Festival (Houston, TX)

Teaching

Higher Education

McLennan Community College, Waco, TX ~ 2004 -2007
Continuing Ed. Dance Instructor

Pennsylvania State University – Altoona campus,  Altoona, PA ~ 2000 – 2002
Adjunct Faculty – Dance Instructor

Recreational Organizations

Camp Danbee, Hinsdale, MA ~ Summer 2004, 2005, 2006
Dance Director

Kids in Motion (formerly Hope Fellowship Homeschoolers), Waco, TX ~ 2004 – 2006
Dance Instructor

Arts Providing Outreach and Youth Opportunities (A.P.O.Y.O),  Waco, TX ~ Summer 2003
Subcontracted Artist

Applause Youth Theatre Company,  Houston, TX ~ 2002 – 2003
Dance Instructor

Private Studios

Dancing Divas Dance Team, Houston, TX ~ 2009, 2010
Unity Dance Co., Waco, TX ~ 2006 – 2007
Central TX Academy of Perf. Arts, Clifton, TX ~ 2003 – 2007
Joy’s School of Dance, Waco, TX ~ 2004 – 2007
Gabrielle’s Dance & Gymnastics, Temple, TX ~ 2004 – 2006
Kennedy Dance Centre, Bellefonte, PA ~ 2000 – 2002 & 1992 – 1995
Kristine’s School of Dance,  Bellefonte and Seagertown, PA ~ 1998 – 2000

Choreography

Musical Theatre

Waco Civic Theatre, Waco, TX

• Once Upon A Mattress ~ 2007
  
• Fiddler on the Roof ~ 2006
  
• Joseph…Dreamcoat ~ 2005
• Babes in Arms ~ 2004
  
• The Wizard of Oz ~ 2003
  

Penns Valley Area High School (director: Evelyn Mudgridge), Centre Hall, PA
Anything Goes ~ 2002

Bellefonte Area High School (director: Marilyn Knoffsinger), Bellefonte, PA
The King and I ~ 2001

State College Community Theatre, State College, PA

• Babes In Arms ~ 2000
  
• Holmes! The Musical ~ 2000
  

Arts Management/Administrative Experience

Waco Civic Theatre, Waco, TX ~ 2005 – 2007
Office Assistant

Camp Danbee, Hinsdale, MA ~ 2004 – 2007
Dance Director

Kids in Motion (formerly Hope Fellowship Homeschoolers), Waco, TX ~ 2004 – 2006
Dance Instructor for independent recreational program

Education & Honors

Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA ~ 1999 Graduate
Bachelor of Arts, Dance, GPA 3.758

• Honored as SRU and NDA Outstanding Dance Major 1998
• Selected by faculty member Nola Nolen to perform on tour in Asheville, NC

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA ~ Transfer
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre and Dance

Workshops and Master Classes Attended

Kenneth Laws -The Physics of Dance
Danny Buraczeski- JAZZDANCE
Jaime Martinez – Parsons Dance Company
Mark Santillano – Pillobolus Partnering, ACDFA
Philadanco Dance Company Members
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Members
Ray Eliot Schwartz, Katherine Birdsal, Sivitri Durkee ~ Zen Monkey Project Summer Intensive – Charlottesville, Va.
Randall Flinn, Laura Zigelbauer – Ad Deum Dance Company Summer Intensive - Houston, Tx.
Tess Blankership – Cast Off Productions, Houston Tx.
Bill Wade – In-let Dance Theatre
Cynthia Newland – New Trails Dance Theatre
Ellen Troy Mulcahy – Dances from West Side Story, ACDFA
Gayanne Grossman – Anatomy & Kinesiology, ACDFA
Fred Darsow – Flamenco Master Class
Michael Pang w/ Dance Alloy – Traditional Hula Master Class
Merce Cunningham – Observed Open Rehearsal, Youngstown State University

Interests

• Acting and Musical Theatre (Leading roles in Equus, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweet Charity, Murder on the Nile, etc.)
• Singing (Alto/Mezzo-Soprano)
• Blogging, HTML
• Music and Digital sound editing
• Literature and Fiction

Detailed resumé/vita upon request.