Weekly OPEN Classes

Nicole von Arx will resume teaching weekly open classes in NYC Spring 2024.

Class description

Nicole von Arx offers an advance level dynamic contemporary class that incorporates elements of floor work, yoga, improvisation, and her latest choreography research. She encourages you to embrace physical and emotional effort, and explore the extent of your body and mind’s capacity. Her warm-up is a series of challenging exercises focusing on isolating, strengthening, aligning and balancing the body. This will lead into improvisation tasks emphasizing sensation, timing and space. The class culminates in a complex phrase work allowing dancers to discover Nicole’s movement vocabulary and musicality. This is an advanced class!

Universities / Colleges / Training Programs

GibneyPro - Guest Teaching Artist Spring 2024

SALT2 - Guest Choreographer Winter 2024

Brigham Young University (BYU) - Guest Teaching Artist Winter 2024

Boston Conservatory of Dance at Berklee - Guest Teaching Artist Winter 2024

The University of Montana - Guest Teaching Artist Fall 2023

MOVE NYC - Guest Teaching Artist Summer 2023

SUNY Purchase - Guest Teaching Artist Fall 2021

University of Maryland - Guest Teaching Artist Winter 2021 (virtual)

NYU Tisch Dance - Guest Teaching Artist 2021

Goucher College - Choreographer Assistant 2019

Rutgers University - Guest Teaching Artist 2017

Sam Houston State University - Guest Teaching Artist 2016

Princeton University - Choreographer Assistant 2015

The Juilliard School - Choreographer Assistant for New Dances 2014

Company

TanzLuzern - Lucern Ballet - Guest Teaching Artist Winter 2023

Gibney Dance Company - Guest Teaching Artist Fall 2021

Gallim Dance - Guest Teaching Artist 2019

GroundWorks Dance Theatre - Choreographer Assistant 2016

Keigwin + Company - Choreographer Assistant 2015

Mentoring

NVA & Guests Fellows - Alyssa Myers and Tessa Fungo 2023

ECS - Emerging Choreographer Series - Maria (Mar) Angela Talavera Tejeda 2023

ECS - Emerging Choreographer Series - Alyssa Markowitz 2022

ECS - Emerging Choreographer Series - Emory Ferra Campbell 2020

Gibney Dance - Meitav Vilensky 2019

College/ Training Program Comissions

Peridance - solo creation for Jessica Marchand 2023

Joffrey School - solo creation for Matt Retcho 2022

The Alvin Ailey School - solo creation for Ólöf Helga Gunnarsdóttir 2011 & Grace Bergonzi 2017

SUNY Purchase - solo creation for Keerati Jinakunwiphat 2016 and Emily McManus 2022

INTENSIVES / POP UPS

The School at Jacob’s Pillow 360 workshop - Guest Teaching Artist 2024

LINK Festival with SALT - Guest Teaching Artist and Choreographer 2023

The Playground - Guest Teaching Artist 2021

EMIA - Choreographer 2021

Movement Invention Project 2 (MIP2) - Guest Teaching Artist 2020-2023

Dance Italia - Guest Teaching Artist 2016

The Juilliard School Summer Dance Intensive - Choreographer Assistant 2014

CONTEMPORARY NOW - CORE: The Movement Destination - Choreographer Assistant 2019

Dance Centers

Gibney Dance - Guest Teaching Artist 2018-2024

Peridance Capezio Center - Guest Teaching Artist 2016-2024

New Jersey Dance Theatre - Guest Teaching Artist 2020

Dance Area - Guest Teaching Artist 2018

Cie Greffe at L'Impasse - Guest Teaching Artist 2019

Undercurrent at Velocity Dance Center - Guest Teaching Artist Winter 2020

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center - Guest Teaching Artist Winter 2020