You’re invited
ELECTRIC ASSEMBLY is a collective of movers exploring what’s possible when we give ourselves permission to be free.
We catalyze spontaneous public dance happenings. Part spectacle, part party, part experiment — these gatherings are opportunities to un-numb and leap outside the lines that keep us bummed + bored.
Our bodies are wild playgrounds full of possibility, so we gather to dance beyond our agendas and assumptions, get curious about what moves us and unleash our full humanity.
If you’re open to it, you belong here too.
You’re invited to come onboard, take the plunge and find out what’s possible when you say yes to life :)
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Hi, I’m NICOLE.
Dance literally saved my life.
In 2010, during a manic episode, I tried to end my life. A stranger stopped me. I spent 2 weeks in a psych center, where they gave me a few diagnoses and told me the only solution was medication.
While it helps many people, I knew it wasn’t right for me. As soon as I left the hospital, the only thing I cared about was getting my body strong enough to return to dancing.
I started researching how movement could help me heal and transform the pain I felt … and putting my research into practice.
It worked.
These discoveries catalyzed my professional dance career. Over the following years, I won two New York Dance and performance “Bessie” Awards, toured North America, Europe, Asia, and starred in the first dance piece to win the Melva Bauksbaum Award at the Whitney Biennial.
While my career was taking off and life looked incredible from the outside, I still felt like something was missing.
I’d forgotten what it felt like to be excited, enraptured, surprised — awed by life.
My go-to states were anxiety, worry, doubt, loneliness and resentment.
Once I realized this, I flipped the script. I stopped chasing what I thought I “should” be doing and started to rekindle joy and connection by dancing in public and inviting others to join me.
These spontaneous public dances aren’t choreography. They’re invitations for all of us to interrupt the patterns that keep us stuck and living experiments in what it means to be alive.
