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Updated 7/27/2023

Nicole Stanton

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Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Nicole Stanton is a dance artist, educator and organizer currently serving as the Dean of Arts and Humanities.  She is a Professor of Dance, and faculty in African American Studies, the College of the Environment, and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University.  She was an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University and has been a visiting artist/professor at Kenyon College, Alfred University, Yale University and Antioch College.  Her choreographic work has been presented at national and international venues such as the Center for Performance Research, 92nd Street Y and Triskelion Arts in NYC, Pro Danza Italia in Italy, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Martin Luther King Arts Center in Columbus Ohio. Nicole has been working at the intersection of art making and community organizing  for nearly twenty years. She worked with theaters such as the San Francisco Mime Troop, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, and San Fransico's Make*A*Circus engaging performance as a liberatory practice that provides a voice for communities.  As a scholar and educator, her work centers on the cultures and histories of the African Diaspora and the ways in which dance in serves as a site of reclamation and resistance. Stanton works in the mediums of choreography, performance, and writing.  Through those forms, she explores intersections between personal, cultural, political and physical experiences with an eye towards celebrating the complexities of black culture and creating platforms that cultivate community.  Her work emphasizes collaborative processes, which has sparked connections with historians, scientists, anthropologists, musicians as well as visual and media artists. The umbrella title for all of her creative research is Cross Roads Dance Productions.

Find Me

Nicole Stanton
Job Title: Dance Artist, Professor, Dean of Arts and Humanities
Phone: 860-685-2706
Address:
160 Cross Street
Middletown, CT 06459

Additional Content:

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts Criticism / Journalism
  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Community Arts
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Curriculum Development
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Residency - Community
  • Residency - Other
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 5

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Families
  • General Public

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-County Region
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Council of Dance Administrators
  • Dance Studies Association
  • International Association of Blacks in Dance

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Council of Dance Administrators
  • Dance Studies Association
  • International Association of Blacks in Dance

Awards

Awards:

  • Wesleyan University Center for the Arts Feet to the Fire Artistic Commission
  • Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs Grant
  • Ohio Arts Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant
  • Ohio State University Presidential Fellow
  • New England Dance Fund Award
  • Albers Foundation interdisciplinary "Threads" fellowship
  • Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship

Education

Education:

  • MFA in Choreography, the Ohio State University
  • BA in Dance and Foreign Civilizations and Languages, Antioch College
  • Contemporary Dance, Center for New Dance Development, Netherlands
  • West African Dance, Maimuna Keita Dance Company, Senegal

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance

Fee range:

$250 - $500

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance

Fee range:

$250 - $500

Touring Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Minimal

Fee Range:

$1,000 - $10,000

State of Residence:

Connecticut

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

10