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Nicole Bradbury (she/her) is a Brooklyn based queer femme performer and writer from Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the University of the Arts School of Dance in Philadelphia, where she received a BFA in May of 2020. At UArts she performed works by Doug Varone, Bobbi Jene Smith, Sidra Bell, and Jesse Zaritt, among others. In the summer of 2018, Nicole performed at the American Dance Festival in Dafi Altabeb’s premiere work Fight or Flight. Her education has also led her to Israel, where she studied with the Batsheva Dance Company, Vertigo Dance Company, and Yazmeen Godder. Notably, Nicole was invited to participate in the dance festival Camping at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris, France in June of 2019. There, she performed the works of Jocelyn Cottencin and Lauren Bakst, participated in workshops from Thomas Hauert and Marcelo Evelyn, and taught fellow students. Alongside performance, she has published articles and creative writing in the Philadelphia Dance Journal, Perphorm, and Dancegeist, and forthcoming in the Movement Research Performance Journal. She recently edited an interview project based in Berlin titled Touching Margins by Nitsan Margaliot and Sasha Portyannikova. Administratively, she has interned with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Rare Book Department in the Theatre Collection, supported The School For Temporary Liveness, and works as a registrar for Manhattan based Arts in Action. Currently, she is an Assistant Editor at the Movement Research Performance Journal in New York, and is a dancer with Heather Stewart’s little house dance company. She recently performed Heather’s new work thorns and leaves in December of 2021 in Portland, ME.