Nikki Lee
UPCOMING PROJECTS - SPRING 2023
Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI: The Inferior Sex by Jacqueline E. Lawton. Directed by Tatyana-Maire Carlo. March 16 - April 16, 2023 - MOVEMENT DESIGN and PERFORMANCE
Emmanuel Music, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA: This Love Unbound. April 29, 2023 at 7.30pm | April 30, 2023 at 3.00pm - DIRECTION and CHOREOGRAPHY
Spring Festival of Dance - Brown University, Providence, RI: Rhode Island Premiere of Two - a duet collaboration with cellist/composer Adrienne Taylor. Thursday, May 4th, 2023
PAST TEACHING EVENTS
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME: Worldbuilding - one week composition intensive,
Summer 2022
The Field Center, Bellows Falls, VT: Summer Contact Improvisation Festival - teacher and co-facilitator
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME: The Viewpoints Technique - one week virtual intensive, Summer 2021
2020 Advanced Contact Improvisation Lab for Women, Co-facilitated with Sarah Konner, (also in 2017, 2018, 2019) The Peacable Barn, Redding, CT
International Contact Festival Freiburg, Frieburg, Germany: August 8-14, 2019
les 1001 Festival Contact Improvisation, Grenoble, France: July 8-14, 2019
Play Practice Artists Residency/Apprenticeship Program - Bangalore, India: Building Ease and Rigor, a Contact Improvisation Intensive with Shura Baryshnikov and Sarah Konner: December 17-22, 2018
Our Moving Bodies: An Advanced CI Lab Weekend for Women: Annually at the Peaceable Barn, Redding, CT
Paris CI Gathering, Paris, France: December 27, 2017 - January 1, 2018
Contact Meets Contemporary CI Festival, Göttingen, Germany: July 24 - 30, 2017
PRESS
Wall Street Journal: 'Svadba' Review: Recorded Rites 02/2022
The New York Times: The 'Handmaid's Tale' is brutal triumph as opera 05/2019
Boston Globe: Boston Lyric Opera's powerful 'Handmaid's Tale' lands close to home 05/2019
The New York Times: 'The Handmaid's Tale' comes home to Boston. As an opera. 05/2019
South Coast Today: Dancer Shura Baryshnikov Still Dancing to Her Own Beat 10/2018
Providence Journal: A lot to like about The Gamm's final production in Pawtucket 04/2018
The Public's Radio: A raucus new take on 'As You Like It': 04/2018
The Sun Chronicle: Gamm bowing out of Pawtucket with sensational Shakespeare 04/2018
The Boston Music Intelligencer - Odyssey Opera Delivers Joan 02/2018
Bachtrack - “Rising up triumphant!”: Odyssey Opera’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher 02/2018
The Boston Globe - Sincerity and fervor in Odyssey Opera’s ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake’ 02/2018
The Boston Music Intelligencer - Odyssey Opera Celebrates Sorcerer-Saint 01/2018
Opera Wire - Q & A: Shura Baryshnikov on Working With Odyssey Opera as Jeanne d’Arc 02/2018
The Patriot Ledger - Doppelgänger Dance Collective might make you look again 01/2017
Art New England - Doppelgänger Dance Collective 11/2016
WBUR / The ARTery - Doppelgänger Dance Collective's Kindred Spirits Come To Cambridge 11/2016
Providence Monthly: Fitness Tips from the Pros - Diversity of Dancing 09/2016
Providence Journal: Shura Baryshnikov is stepping out on her own 05/2016
Providence Journal: Baryshnikov's daughter forms R.I. dance troupe 03/2016
Boston Globe: A role that was waiting for its Baryshnikov 09/2015
TEDxProvidence: Shura Baryshnikov 05/2015