Nicole Charlton Goodbrand

Nicole Charlton Goodbrand is a Calgary based contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and dance educator, whose creative practice is heeded by curiosity and uses movement and performance art to illustrate the layered complexities of human behaviour and distorted personal realities. Her performative work is engaging and inquisitive and attempts to emphasize the everyday narrative of humans and their relationships to one another, to themselves, and to the environments they construct.

Nicole has performed locally, nationally, and internationally with many Alberta based dance companies and choreographers. She is a dance interpreter with W&M Physical Theatre and is the Artistic Associate of the apprentice company WM2. Nicole is a dance educator and certified teacher (RAD-RTS), instructing youth and professional dancers locally, and is a sessional instructor at the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary in the department of dance.

Nicole holds a BA in Dance from the University of Calgary, a BA graduate diploma from The School of Alberta Ballet, and a Professional Dancers’ Postgraduate Teaching Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dance (Berlin). Nicole has received numerous grants and awards for her work including Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant for Artists, 2023; Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Individual Project Grant, 2023; The Grand’s Summer Artist Development Residency, 2023; W&M Physical Theatre Artist in Residence, 2023/17; Artist in Residence, DJD Creative Residency Program, 2023/21 and more.

Ms. Goodbrand offers a distinctive emerging choreographic voice in Alberta’s dance community. With a keen eye for unusual human behaviours and relationships, Ms. Goodbrand investigates how these behaviours and relationships can be expanded upon and refracted through human movement and dance.

Dr. Melanie Kloetzel, Professor, Division Lead for Dance School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary