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Published on: 8/11/2006
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Nicole Wesley is a performer, teacher and choreographer out of Austin, Texas.She holds an MFA in Dance from Texas Woman's University in Denton and a BFA in Dance from The University of Texas at Austin.Nicole has been a company member of the Austin-based Johnson/Long Dance Company since 1996 and has been a performer and choreographer with Austin's REALMdanceproject since 1999.She is a Co-Artistic Director for Rendezvous DanceWorks and premiered her latest work, She Comes in Colors, at the Pawleys Island Youth Arts Celebration in South Carolina in May 2004.Ms. Wesley's choreography has been commissioned by Texas Woman's University, Texas State University and Stephen F. Austin State University and her choreographic works have been presented at performance venues such as The Dallas Morning News Dance Festival, The American College Dance Festival, Dance for the Planet, The Fringe Festival/Austin and the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival.This February, Ms. Wesley toured with the Johnson/Long Dance Company's I Stuck My Head in the Garden to Hamburg, Germany.Currently, Ms. Wesley is Adjunct Faculty in Dance at Austin Community College in Austin.She will assume a new position as Assistant Professor in Dance at Spelman College in Atlanta in the fall of 2004.