NICOLETTA LANESE
NYC-BASED DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018
Graduate Certificate in Science Communication
University of Florida, Gainesville, 2017
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance,
summa cum laude
Bachelors of Science in Psychology:
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience,
cum laude
TECHNICAL COURSEWORK
Fall 2013
Basic Modern Dance - Ric Rose
Basic Ballet - Isa Garcia-Rose
Majors Technique - Tzveta Kassabova, Kristen O’Neal
Dance Ensemble - Tiffany Rhynard
Spring 2014
Basic Modern Dance - Tzveta Kassabova, Kristen O’Neal
Basic Ballet - Ric Rose
West African Dance/Music - Mohamed DaCosta
Intermediate Jazz - Ric Rose
Fall 2014
World Dance (West African) - Mohamed DaCosta
Dance Composition 1- Joan Frosch
Intermediate Modern Dance - Pat Graney
Intermediate Ballet - Isa Garcia-Rose
Dance Ensemble - Ric Rose
Spring 2015
World Dance (Hip Hop) - Trent Williams, Jr.
Dance Composition 2 - Trent Williams, Jr.
Intermediate Modern Dance - Trent Williams, Jr.
Advanced Ballet - Isa Garcia-Rose
Summer 2015
Summer Dance Intensive - Iyun Harrison, Helanius Wilkinson
Fall 2015
Dance Composition 3 - Nita Little
Advanced Modern Dance - Nita Little
Advanced Ballet - Angela DiFiore
Spring 2016
Dance Composition 4 - Trent Williams, Jr.
Advanced Modern Dance - Melissa Brenner
Advanced Ballet - Trent Williams, Jr.
Fall 2016
Choreographic Senior Project - Elizabeth Johnson
Advanced Modern Dance - Elizabeth Johnson
Laban Movement Analysis - Joan Frosch
Spring 2017
Advanced Modern - Melissa Brenner
Advanced Ballet - Ric Rose
2020
What is essential?
Contribution to online project by DZ Maciel
WALLS
Contribution to Instagram project by @experimental_creation_art
ONE SCORE / MANY DANCES
Contribution to Instagram project by @nikkiandthenoise
2019
Like Dust, We Settle
Self-choreographed for Dance Jam, curated by
Amanda Stambrosky at CCC in NYC
Kitri's Entrance
Adapted as duet with Yuna Hattori for OIST cultural event
Turbulent Flows in Soap Film - Dance Your PhD
Co-choreographed with Yuna Hattori
2018
max10
A work in progress, self-choreographed
The Name of This Dance Changes Every Day
Bluets #1-40, Cid Pearlman in collaboration with dancers
2017
BFA Showcase: ROOTED: why am i?
Second Draft, collaboration with Stacie Cratty
Badasoorat Battakh Ka Bachacha, Esrom Anil Williams, Jr.
Harn Museum of Dance
Don’t Worry Your Pretty Little Head, Breena Cocco
Watch Me Tap, Watch Me Sous-sus, Daniel Morimoto and self
American College Dance Festival (USF)
Don’t Worry Your Pretty Little Head, Breena Cocco
Dance 2017: Rounding the Corner
Fuerza de Mujer, Isa Garcia-Rose
Splendor: Let the Good Times Roll!
Fuerza de Mujer, Isa Garcia-Rose
2016
BFA Showcase: Mind Your Step
Fuerza de Mujer, Isa Garcia-Rose
Don’t Worry Your Pretty Little Head, Breena Cocco
BFA Showcase: BEING
The Burning Conclusion, self-choreographed
Mathematics, Art, and Science at the Harn
Reconsolidation, self-choreographed
Harn Museum of Dance
Page-turner, Andrea Piazza and self
To feel… so WE can be, Mia Redding
American College Dance Festival (Emory)
To feel… so WE can be, Mia Redding
when THEY become ONE, Melissa Brenner and Trent Williams, Jr.
Dance 2016: Worlds Apart
father.salt.sound.movement, Trent Williams, Jr.
2015
Agbedidi
Greater Than Once We Were, Iyun Harrison
Young Dancer’s Workshop
when THEY become ONE, Melissa Brenner and Trent Williams, Jr.
BFA Showcase: It Happened in College
To feel… so WE can be, Mia Redding
An Illusion of Vanity, Andrea Piazza
Ajô: together we stand, Fernando Ferraz
when THEY become ONE, Melissa Brenner and Trent Williams, Jr.
Swamp Dance Fest 2015
Greater Than Once We Were, Iyun Harrison
BFA Showcase: Incongro(us)
Attic, George Staib
Dance 2015: Based on True Stories
The Women of Delphi, Ric Rose
Transfiguration, Isa Garcia-Rose
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
Nicole Assanti, Andrew Dorsey
Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Event
Argetype, Stephanie Capon and Andrew Flint
Shape-Influenced Behavior in a Nanomaterial World, Amanda Ruiz and Alan Roberts
2014
Agbedidi
Forokoroba, Soli (Mediani), Mohamed DaCosta
BFA Showcase: Instead I Sipped
The Women of Delphi, Ric Rose
Transfiguration, Isa Garcia-Rose
Argetype, Stephanie Capon
BFA Showcase: Relatively 75
Nachtmahr, Jenn Martz
Splendor: New York Nights
42nd Street, Isa Garcia-Rose
2013
Agbedidi
Echale Mojito, Isa Garcia-Rose
BFA Showcase: As is
Citizen Project, Tiffany Rhynard
CHOREOGRAPHIC SAMPLES
(Science-themed)
Turbulent Flows in Soap Film - Dance Your PhD
January 2019
Shot at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
November 2016
Premiered at “BFA Showcase: Mind Your Step” at the University of Florida
April 2016
Premiered at “BFA Showcase: BEING” at the University of Florida
April 2016
Premiered at “Mathematics, Art, and Science at the Harn” at the Harn Museum of Art
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
Dance in a Suitcase
President 2015-2016
Publicity Chair 2014-2015
Fine Arts College Council
Executive Board Member 2015-2016
MOD Dance Ensemble, directed by Trent D. Williams, Jr. Cast member 2015-2016
MISC
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Taught free modern dance classes at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
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Pedagogical theory and practice through “Teaching Methods” course
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Lighting/sound production experience through two semesters of “Production and Performance: Electric” and “Introduction to Light and Sound”
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Design of posters and promotional materials for BFA Showcases “Mind Your Step” (November 2016) and “BEING” (April 2016)
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Mentor to three undergraduate dance students within University of Florida Dance Department