
Celestial Divides (2024)
Sometimes we feel as if we shatter into a million pieces, scattering ourselves among ideas, people, and experiences. Occasionally, we find a way to reassemble, but at other times, we feel a profound divide within. Celestial Divides tells of how the molecules within us strive for harmony, even amidst great tension. This piece explores the delicate moments of unity and fragmentation, illustrating how we navigate our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Presented at the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship Program at Jacob's Pillow
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Dancers: Madison Bender and Jake Nahor
Music by Tim Hecker
A Hallmark Holiday Special (2023)
Holiday Hallmark Special tells the Classic Hallmark Christmas Romantic Comedy story...but with a twist. The dancers take the audience through this narrative using dynamic physicality along with drama, lust, and head-over-heels drunken love.
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Presented at NW Dance Project Studios in Portland, OR
Lighting: Jeff Forbes
Filmed by: Aidan Kaye
Costumes: Nicole Hennington
Dancers: Armando Brydson & Beatriz García Díaz
"[This] piece had the audience laughing again as we followed their waltzing love story...Hennington’s work [is] chock-full of movement, and the story came through in the moments between extravagant partnering and virtuosic solos. Proving true to its name, the audience ate it up, hooting and hollering for the duo as they fled the stage." - Oregon Artswatch
Lullaby for 21 (2023)
Lullaby for 21 was created for 21 dancers. We started our process around the discussion of dreams, homes, dream homes, and how our dreams can affect where we call home.
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Presented at NW Dance Project Studios in Portland, OR
Lighting: Jeff Forbes
Created in Collaboration with the NW Dance Project Summer Dance Platform Participants
Don't Carry This Alone (2023)
"Don't Carry This Alone" sparks the conversation of burnout and community exhaustion. During this creation process, I asked the dancers the following questions: What are the physical effects of burnout? When do we keep grinding through when we feel these effects? Can we experience community burnout or is it an individual event? Is it up to us or our community to keep us afloat? Is burnout an accumulation of events or is triggered by one event?
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Presented by Carmel Dance Festival at the CDF Choreography & Dance Fellowship Program
Lighting: Kendall Smith
Costumes: Nicole Hennington & Lillian Barbeito
Dancers: Genevieve Antonetty, Natalie Aronno, Bailey Duffield, Marie Finley, Jessica Hovermale, Kloii Hummingbird, Sophia Neilson, Courtney Sprouse, Olivia Wood, Angus Wu, Dillon Zamora
As I Am (2022)
"As I Am" showcases the juxtaposition between extreme natures in humanity finding fluidity in mania, depression, and the balance between
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Danced by GroundWorks DanceTheater
Lighting: Dennis Dugan
Costumes: Janet Bollick with Nicole Hennington
Dancers: Madison Pineda, Teagan Reed, Victoria Rumzis
Wild Is The Wind (2022)
"Wild Is The Wind" is a solo created purely for the sake of creating. During our time together, Gemma and I discussed how throughout the years, alterations in our physical environments have made us stronger in our values and more compassionate towards ourselves and others in times of change. Like a leaf dances in the wind as it falls regardless of if anyone sees it, and it will do so again the next year.
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Dancer: Gemma Bender
Music: Wild Is The Wind by Ms. Lauryn Hill
Between Presence (2021)
"Between Presence" showcases the spaces that were once frequently populated by the public and discovered the newfound loneliness that lives between the walls
Conceptualized by Cory Sheldon & Nicole Hennington
Filmed & Edited by Cory Sheldon
Danced by Nicole Hennington
Filmed in Akron, OH
Grief Point (2017)
​​'Grief Point" is Nicole Hennington's thesis from when she graduated with her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Arizona. Physically, it is a summery of everything she learned throughout her years in the UofA Program. Mentally, it showcases the struggle to fit into a mold that is given to you on paper.
Choreography: Nicole Hennington
Dancers: Nicole Hennington & Eduardo Zambrana
Lighting Design: John Dahlstrand
Stupid Cupid (2017)
Performed as an opening act for "Out of Mind" performed by Dana Metz Co at the Tempe Center for the Arts​
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Danced and choreographed by: Nicole Hennington
Music: Stupid Cupid by Connie Francis