Cathy Nicoli

Biography
Cathy Nicoli completed her MFA in Dance at Smith College on a teaching fellowship and completed her BA Cum Laude in Dance and Performance Studies at Roger Williams University. 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. She has been honored by the American College Dance Festival in their request 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 taught and choreographed for Amherst College, Brown University, Keene State College, Providence College, Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, and Smith College. She was a long time member of Groundwerx Dance Theatre and is now an original member of Heidi Henderson’s Elephant Jane Dance Company while she continues to work independently as a choreographer and performer.