Nicole Manker 

Founder & Artistic Director

Nicole Manker began her artistic career as a percussionist, which fueled her passion for choreography. Nicole has spent the bulk of her artistic energy collaborating with dance companies, studios, and otherwise in Northern California, as well as working with theatre productions, fashion shows, and artistic endeavors in Western Europe. Nicole welcomes opportunities to connect performers and collaborative experiences with social concerns. Nicole has developed a post-modern dance technique that works in all dimensions and uses gravity as a powerful vessel for shifting momentum in order to maintain a conversation based on what the body knows. Nicole holds a B.A. in Foreign Languages with a concentration on translation and cultural studies and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with a dual concentration in Methods and Curriculum and Instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Education. Nicole is currently Adjunct Faculty with CSUS and with Los Rios Community College District, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor at San Joaquin Delta College. Nicole also founded Dynamic EnerG, which is a worldwide collective of more than four-hundred artists that have been creating together since 2007. Dynamic EnerG has undergone organizational revisions since 2014 that promote service and artivism in the community. Nicole looks forward to continuing to balance choreographic perspectives, become a certified Dunham Instructor and completing an Ed.D. in Professional Leadership, Inquiry.