Nichole Canuso combines subtle gesture and explosive movement to explore the human condition through dance.  Nichole is the artistic director of Nichole Canuso Dance Company.  She is a company member of Headlong Dance Theater and has performed & collaborated with Pig Iron Theater Company (with whom she co-created and toured a 3 woman clown play), Theater Exile, Karen Bamonte Dance Works, Group Motion Dance Company. In 2008 Canuso performed with Bill Irwin in THE HAPPINESS LECTURE at the Philadelphia Theater Company.  Nichole’s dancing, choreography and study have taken her throughout France, Scotland, Poland, Japan and across the U.S.  Her work has been supported by a Bessie Shoenberg First Light Commission, The Leeway Foundation, the Independence Foundation, 8 Dance Advance awards (a grant program funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts), The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Ellen Foreman Memorial Award.  Choreographic residencies include fellowship at Maggie Allesse National Center for Choreography (FL), The New Edge Residency (CEC, Philadelphia), The Swarthmore Project (Swarthmore College, PA), The Choreographers Project (Susan Hess Dance Studio, Philadelphia).