Nic Lincoln - Minneapolis, Minnesota
The scope of Nic Lincoln’s choreographic career is comprised of 29 works, and he danced professionally in the Twin Cities for over 20 years. His pieces have been commissioned by James Sewell Ballet, The O’Shaughnessy Theater, Hope College, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, DITA in Michigan, and the Human Rights Campaign. Most recently, he received the Cowles Center’s Generating Room: Open Proposal Initiative (2020), Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant (2015), a prestigious commission from Momentum for the Southern Theater, funded by the Walker Arts Theater, the Jerome Foundation, and the Cowles Theater (2015), and was Named One of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine (2013), and a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dance (2011). As a dance artist and activist he has teamed with OutFront MN, The Red Door Clinic, Transforming Families, The MN AIDS Project and The Human Rights Campaign. For his most recent work, “Escalade”, he is teaming with RECLAIM. RECLAIM works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms.
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EXCHANGE #11
In conversation with Nic Lincoln (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Recorded on November 21, 2021
This is an edited version of Joanna and Nic’s hour and a half conversation and includes topics such as: what it's like dancing in one company for ten years, the royal 'they' in ballet, aging, emotional scar-tissue, and what inspires his dance making.
*To turn closed captioning on or off, click on the CC icon in the bottom right corner of the video.
Below is the raw movement exchange relayed from Bashaun Williams to Nic. You will see Bashaun doing his original movement and then you will see both of them doing Bashaun’s movement, which Nic learned. Nic will add onto this and that movement will be passed onto Alexandra James in Portland, Maine.
Photos by (left to right): Nic Lincoln, Blake Nellis, V.P. Virtuccio, Blake Nellis
This project is commissioned in part by the American Dance Festival (ADF).
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