“While the reclaiming of the female form has a long-standing history within art, in this post #metoo climate a powerful reclaiming such as this feels even more pertinent”
Grace Nicol is a London-based choreographer, movement director and facilitator whose practice focuses on object–body relations and materiality, using juxtapositions of objecthood and bodies to explore movement in socio-political contexts.
Her choreographic work has toured nationally and internationally, including at Kulturhuset, Hackney Showroom, ]Performance Space[, NN Contemporary, Tate Modern, the V&A Museum, Guest Projects, the National Gallery and the Barbican. She works collaboratively with visual artists, including an ongoing partnership with Jeremy Deller.
Grace also choreographs and movement directs for film and photography, creating commercial and music video work including for the BBC, NTS, Lauren Faith and Chivas Regal. She has worked with actors such as Alex Lawther and Roman Griffin Davis, and provides movement direction for fashion projects including i-D x Christian Louboutin and Sinead O’Dwyer.
She is a Lecturer in Dance at London Contemporary Dance School and offers mentoring, talks and lectures for institutions including Roehampton University, the University of Suffolk, Falmouth University and the Kickstarter Company at DanceEast. She has supervised on the MA programme at ArtEZ and delivered talks such as Programming for Lates (V&A Museum) and Public Dance: Performance for Galleries, Museums and Other Public Spaces (Fabric).
Grace has long been committed to developing care-focused choreographic practices. Her recent work includes co-founding the Pastoral Care Offer scheme with Temitope Ajose and creating a Public Dance pack, commissioned by Fabric, to support collaborative processes between dance artists and venues.
Her work has been featured in Vogue, Run Riot, Arts Professional, Hunger, Dazed, i-D, Girls Are Awesome and It’s Nice That (see press). She has received a Stockholm Fringe Award, a BBCF award, a Choreographers Gallery Award, the Mayor of London Culture Seed Fund, and support from Arts Council England.