Nicole Caruana CV
Awards/festivals
1st Prize International Competition for Choreographers in Hanover, Germany
Performer Prize Copenhagen International Choreography Competition
Production Prize: Commission for Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam, NL
Fuorimargine Autunno Danza Inaugural Artist in Cagliari, Sardegna
Technos International Prize for Cultural Diversity in Tokyo, Japan
Dance Gallery Festival, Level Up Commissioned Artist, New York, NY
Dance Force WNY Choreographers Initiative Grant
Education
BFA in Dance, Performance and Composition Concentration with Minor in Biology, 2017
SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance : magna cum laude
Semester abroad: London Contemporary Dance School, 2016
Teaching Experience
BalletX Summer Intensive 2021
Ballet Hartford
SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Dance
Sam Houston State University Department of Dance
University at Buffalo Dance & Theater Department
Breathing Art Dance Company, Bari IT
Commissioned Choreography
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
BalletX
Ballet Hartford
Joffrey Ballet School
Canadian Contemporary Dance Theater
Performance Experience
Choreographers: Doug Varone, Ohad Naharin, Saar Harari & Lee Sher, Earl Mosley, Kevin Wynn, Sue Bernhard, Nicole Von Arx, Alexandra Beller, Robert Moses, Alex Ketley, Vincent Hardy.
Additional Training
Martha Graham School Winter Intensive
Studied Alongside of Batsheva Dance Company and Ohad Naharin in Tel Aviv, Israel
Hofesh Shechter Summer Intensive
Arts Umbrella International Summer Intensive
American Dance Festival Six Week School
Nuova Officina della Danza Summer Intensive: Noa Zuk, Sita Ostheimer
San Francisco Conservatory of Dance Summer Intensive
Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts
Doug Varone’s Choreographic Devices
B12
Ballet Education
Artemis Gordan, Taryn Kaschock Russell, Summer Lee Rhatigan, Alex Ketley, Bettijane Sills, Gabrielle Lamb, Ted Kivitt, William Gentes, Deborah Wingert, Wallie Wolfgruber, Juan Carlos Penuela, Michelle Thompson Ulerich
References available upon request.