Five College Dance Department : Cathy Nicoli

Cathy Nicoli

Cathy Nicoli earned her BA Cum Laude in Dance and Performance Studies from Roger Williams University and her MFA from Smith College. She is a two-time recipient of both the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts' Choreography Award and the Rhode Island Foundation's Joseph Cirino Scholarship for Arts Education. The American College Dance Festival has honored Cathy by inviting her to perform her solo work at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cathy can be seen in the Ben Folds Five MTV music video Underground - to which she was also Assistant Choreographer. She has worked with students in private and public schools, inner-city arts programs and college and university settings including Brown University, Providence College, Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, and the Five College Dance Department – where she currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member. She was Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Hampshire College Spring 2005-2008, and during that time received both the Hewlett Faculty Development Grant and the Project Pericles Civic Engagement Course Development Award. Presently, she is part of the dance faculty of Keene State College. In addition to teaching and choreographing independently, Cathy is an original member of Heidi Henderson’ s elephant Jane dance, and for the last nine
summers has directed a children’ s day camp at Bearnstow – an arts retreat in Mt. Vernon, ME.

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photo by Scott Lapham	Cathy Nicoli Cathy Nicoli earned her BA Cum Laude in Dance and Performance Studies from Roger Williams University and her MFA from Smith College. She is a two-time recipient of both the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts' Choreography Award and the Rhode Island Foundation's Joseph Cirino Scholarship for Arts Education. The American College Dance Festival has honored Cathy by inviting her to perform her solo work at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cathy can be seen in the Ben Folds Five MTV music video Underground - to which she was also Assistant Choreographer. She has worked with students in private and public schools, inner-city arts programs and college and university settings including Brown University, Providence College, Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, and the Five College Dance Department – where she currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member. She was Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Hampshire College Spring 2005-2008, and during that time received both the Hewlett Faculty Development Grant and the Project Pericles Civic Engagement Course Development Award. Presently, she is part of the dance faculty of Keene State College. In addition to teaching and choreographing independently, Cathy is an original member of Heidi Henderson’ s elephant Jane dance, and for the last nine summers has directed a children’ s day camp at Bearnstow – an arts retreat in Mt. Vernon, ME.