Nichole Canuso Dance Company (NCDC) is dedicated to creating performance experiences that embrace and address the complexity and contradictions of humanity. Projects often sit at the crossroads of movement, visual art, and theater. NCDC brings dance out of conventional spaces to engage audiences in adventurous ways. The company is currently exploring the interfaces of live, embodied presence with emerging technologies that challenge our definitions of human relationship. The content of these projects embrace the values and lives of the people involved and the synergy created between audience and performer.

The role of the audience is deeply considered in each process, often inviting audience members to become co-creators of the experience. Past projects include an exploration of separation and connection on both personal and epic scales featuring two performers separated in physical space who converge in a third cinematic space (Pandæmonium, 2016), a solo piece which questions, constructs and transforms the outlines of Canuso’s memories as she builds and takes apart her house (Midway Avenue, 2014), an immersive performance for 6 audience members at a time led via headset (The Garden of Forking Paths, 2017, The Garden, 2013); a collaboration with 6-piece band The Mural and The Mint (As the Eyes of the Seahorse, 2009); a hybrid of dance, installation, and cinema (TAKES, 2010); and a performance that roamed the halls and stairways of an historic Philadelphia church building (Wandering Alice, 2008).