About

NICOLE HENKEL (she/her) is a Connecticut and Massachusetts-based choreographer, performer, educator, and artist. Henkel’s choreographic and performative research strives to explore the complex and interwoven relationship between psychological and physiological connections dance provides for our human existence. 

 

Henkel’s passion for dance lies within movement's power as a visual expression of the internal self. She has choreographed adjudicated and non-adjudicated works for venues such as Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Boston Dance Studios, Alchemy Movement Showcase, Florence Summer Dance (Florence Italy), American Collegiate Dance Association, and Springfield College. Henkel has been honored to receive recognitions for her choreographic teachings including Halo Awards, recently Best Musical in Connecticut for A Chorus Line. 

 

She has performed works by renowned artists such as Monica Bill Barnes, Didy Veldman, Tatiana Desardouin, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Sarah Zehnder, Joanna Kotze, Kimani Fowlin, Kodee Van Nort and more. In addition to working with dance professionals, Henkel has extensive theater performance experience exploring various roles as both performer and production team member. Graduating from Springfield College with a BA in Dance and BS in Psychology; she is continuing at the college to obtain her Master's degree in School Counseling/ School Adjustment Counseling  (‘25).