kerry nicholls dance

Kerry Nicholls Dance offers wide-ranging contemporary dance opportunities that include – choreography, teaching, mentoring, direction, and consultancy – to dance organisations, dance makers, students, artistic directors and professional dancers.

With over twenty years of acclaimed international experience in the dance sector, KND is driven by leading multidisciplinary dance artist, Kerry Nicholls. The different strands of her practice come together to deliver innovative work of excellence promoting exciting artistic, education and development opportunities for professional artists, companies and young people.

CHOREOGRAPHY

Nicholls has produced critically acclaimed choreographic works over the past two decades that have received global exposure. KND creates original works and offers dynamic choreographic projects tailor-made to challenge and reveal the individual talents of the participants. In youth group, vocational school and professional settings KND uses distinctive, fast and intricate movement language that invigorates and pushes dancers to their limits. Working with generative processes that consistently expand both cognitive and physical prowess, KND creates from a broad and idiosyncratic palette of invention. KND delivers choreographic residencies and commissions both in the UK and abroad.

TEACHING

KND’s exceptional creative teaching and learning skills are highly sought after worldwide. Using a wide range of evolved teaching methods, KND leads innovative, energised and empathic experiences of dance in the studio for all ages and standards. In popular demand for both technique and compositional courses – open and master – the classes delight and inspire young people and professionals alike. Technically, the fast-paced workshops fuse Limon and release-based techniques with a thorough, athletic and energetic approach. KND offers a range of safe training and performance opportunities for dancers and artists in the form of classes, workshops and residencies integrating inclusive practice, original thinking and intellectual curiosity.

MENTORING

KND has a passion for mentoring and supporting young and professional talent. With sensitivity and intuition, KND has formulated feedback mechanisms that promote transparent transaction in the studio, inspiring dance artists and makers to make the most of vital evaluation dialogue. As a keen observer of creative potential, with a discerning and rigorous eye, Nicholls brings encouragement, provocation and strategic intervention allowing artists to interrogate past processes and experience new approaches that will allow them to expand their artistic skills and empower them to create and drive exceptional work.

DIRECTING

KND demonstrates positive leadership within artistic projects with visible, passionate dedication to the art form. Celebrating cooperation and collaboration, KND delivers imaginative and creative projects with deep rooted managerial experience in large scale projects. With experience directing successful projects such as ‘Street Stories 2012 and 2014’ for East London Dance and the Royal Opera House and the ReFresh project in conjunction with Sadler’s Wells and The Place, KND equips and motivates participants to extend their capabilities. Opening clear communication channels which support reflection and critical thinking with civility, KND employs coherent strategies that can effect artistic change.

ARTISTIC CONSULTANCY

KND is connected to a wide international arts network and strongly placed to offer articulate and insightful advice. After designing curricula and syllabi for dance programmes and departments at educational institutions including the English National Ballet School and the prestigious D.A.N.C.E programme for the Wayne McGregor | Random Dance artistic team, Nicholls’ artistic knowledge and intellectual standpoint adds impact and reassurance within her advisory capacity roles. As an unbiased, forward-thinking, external sound board for both educational and performative strands, she can advise on career development, project management and recruitment, teacher training programmes and curriculum analysis.