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Nicole Perry (she/her(s)) is a Silver Palm Award-winning and Carbonell Award-nominated Intimacy Choreographer, as well as a Dance Choreographer in South Florida. Nicole Perry is a Certified Intimacy Director and Certified Intimacy Coordinator with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. She is available for freelance hire, both on location and virtually.
Nicole has trained with IDC, IDI, IPA, TIE, and Intimacy for Stage and Screen (UK). She holds an MFA from Goddard College in Interdisciplinary Arts, with concentrations in Performance Creation and Decolonial Arts Praxis. Her thesis: Working Consent: Ethical Engagement with Collaborators, Students, Audiences, and the Land in Dance and Theatre Pedagogy and Practice, is available on the Dance page of this site. Nicole is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst. Her certifying project combined L/BMS and Intimacy Choreography.
Recent credits include: 2 Broward County Artist Investment Grants for new site-inspired dance works, KINesphere 2021 and 2023, Intimacy Coordination for an episode of BET’s First Wives Club, feature films for Hulu and Netflix, and The Truth of a Thousand Nights, an award-winning short film, Intimacy Choreography for the powerful One in Two at Island City Stage, and the rolling world premiere of the Carbonell-nominated Refuge at TheatreLab.
Career highlights include Intimacy Coordination for God Forbid: The Sex Scandal that Brought Down a Dynasty on Hulu and Intimacy Choreography for To Fall in Love at TheatreLab. Other credits include choreography for The 6th Annual Somatic Dance Concert Series and Center City Opera Theater's World Premiere of The Always Present Present, and 2 full seasons as the resident choreographer at Hedgerow Theatre, including their World Premiere of An American Tragedy.
Photos and videos of these projects and many others may be found on this site.
She recently published “Motif Writing (LBMA) for Meaning-Making and Show Maintenance in Intimacy Choreography” in the peer-reviewed Journal of Movement Arts Literacy.
Nicole is the founder of Momentum Stage, Inc., which offers professional development for artists, arts educators, and arts organizations on the topics of touch, trauma-awareness, consent, Laban/Bartenieff for performers, and more. She has delivered trainings for dancers, actors, and teachers at universities and organizations around the world. Momentum is proud to partner with the Dance Education Equity Association in delivering these trainings to dance studios and competitions across the US. Nicole has taught extended courses in the Ethics of Touch for Momentum, the Laban Institute for Movement Studies (USA), and the National Dance Education Organization (USA).
Nicole is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Florida Atlantic University. She is also a certified Pilates instructor through Romana’s Pilates, a classical Pilates organization.
Along with Sarah Lozoff and Renee Redding-Jones, she is a member of Intimacy Direction In Dance, connecting classical ballet and concert dance companies and conservatory and university dance programs to Intimacy Directors skilled in dance.
She is also a founding member of Florida Intimacy Professionals, creating community and standards for staged intimacy work in the state.
Nicole is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the National Dance Education Organization, the Dance Studies Association, and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.