This month’s Our Community blog features the captivating Nicole Andrea Pemberton.

Nicole is a dance artist, mentor, choreographer, health entrepreneur and educator who has performed professionally nationally in Canada, New York and Trinidad and Tobago. Her lineage comes from the islands of Antigua/Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the countries of England and Canada. She has taught and facilitated movement experiences for over 100,000 kids and adults and counting.

She has trained and performed with various respected artists and choreographers in Canada and internationally. Nicole’s background is in performance, expressive arts, and education in dance. Her formal education included obtaining a diploma and Bachelor of Arts specializing in dance, choreography and performance. Nicole has presented her own choreography and spoken word works on stage.

Nicole has knowledge in many dance styles African, Contemporary, Caribbean, Jazz and Hip Hop. She has been flexing her teaching skills in studios and schools all over Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver for over 25 years. She educates, choreographs, manages, and mentors with organizations such as SoundKreations. She is the new Artistic Director Footprints Dance projects, an organization that provides dance and film programming to Youth-At-Risk. Program Coordinator for Woezo Africa, Black Arts Development Program. She also was an Executive team member Movement with a Message. Nicole Facilitates and co-facilitates local and international retreats, dance programs in schools, dance classes at many studios, created training programs, and Created and co-collaborated events in-person and online.

Always expanding in her skills and interests Nicole has studied in Health and embodiment coaching, Spirituality, Divine feminine and Goddess arts, Intuitive channeling, somatic movement, energy modalities (Reiki, Crystal therapy). Combining all these modalities Nicole has created her own women empowerment business The Goddess Moves, a sacred space for women to awaken, align, and embody in full expression to the Goddess within. Dance is more than just steps for her. A powerful healing embodiment resource that we all have access to. It is medicine!

Check out our interview with Nicole below.

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Reference Links:

Woezo Africa
https://woezoafrica.com/

Black Arts Development Program
https://woezoafrica.com/badp/

Footprints Dance Project
https://footprintsdance.com/

SoundKreations
https://www.soundkreations.com/

Movement with a Message
https://www.facebook.com/movementwithamessage/

The Goddess Moves
https://www.thegoddessmoves.space/

Black Dance America on PBS
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10901822/

Garth Fagan Dance 
https://www.garthfagandance.org/

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
https://www.alvinailey.org/

Katherine Dunham
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katherine-Dunham

Chuck Davis
https://www.bam.org/artists/chuck-davis

The African American Dance Ensemble
https://aade-inc.org/

Debbie Allen & The Debbie Allen Dance Academy
https://www.debbieallendanceacademy.com/debbie-allen

Michèle Moss
https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/people-of-djd-michele-moss/

Ronald K. Brown & Evidence Dance
https://www.evidencedance.com/ronald-k-brown

Santee Smith & Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre
https://www.kahawidance.org/santeesmith

Wakefield Brewster
https://wakefieldbrewster.com/

Big Hill Springs Provincial Park
https://www.albertaparks.ca/parks/kananaskis/big-hill-springs-pp/

About the Our Community blogs

At DJD, we pride ourselves on having so many incredible people who share our space with us. We want to highlight these people who are a part of our family and make our community whole. This monthly blog series will focus on the artists themselves and celebrate their incredible accomplishments.