About Cathy

Cathy Nicoli is Associate Professor/Coordinator of Dance and Performance Studies at Roger Williams University. She is a Certified Movement Analyst and Bartenieff FundamentalsTM Practitioner, and trained to teach dance for Parkinson’s populations. Her choreography has earned two RISCA Choreography Fellowships, a RI Foundation Teaching Artist Scholarship, and has shown in venues internationally—from London’s National Theatre to Stockholm’s Ballet Academy; from a Ben Folds Five music video in the desert, to under a grand piano in the woods of Maine. Her screendance credits include Chris Lewis Smith’s (UK) To Be Watched While Eating an Orange, which received the Jury’s Selection Award at the 2018 Courant 3D Film Festival (FR). She earned her MFA on a full teaching scholarship from Smith College.

photo: Nikki Lee