Nicole Rose Bond began her formal dance training at York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance cum laude in 2005 after being awarded the Grant Strate Award in Dance in 2003 and 2005 respectively and the Harry Rowe Bursary in 2004.  

Nicole felt privileged to perform works by esteemed choreographers including Peggy Baker, Patricia Beatty, Tom Brouillette, Susan Cash, Bill Coleman, David Earle, Danny Grossman, Ryan Graham Hinds, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Learie McNicholl, Andrea Nann, Yvonne Ng, John Oswald, Peter Quanz, Peter Randazzo and Andrea Spaziani. 

Nicole has had three cross country Canadian tours with the Toronto Dance Theatre [TDT]: performing ‘Rivers’ in 2012; ‘Eleven Accords’ in 2014; and, in celebration of the TDT 50th anniversary following the company’s tour of Medellin and Bogotá, Colombia in 2017, the TDT toured Canada a third time in 2018.   

Following the world debut of ‘Who We Are In The Dark’ in Toronto in 2019, Nicole toured with Peggy Baker Dance Projects along with Sara Neufeld and Jeremy Gara of Arcade Fire to other Canadian cities as well as Den Haag, Netherlands and Guanajuato, Mexico. 

  Whilst residing in Toronto, Nicole worked as a course director in Graham Technique and Contemporary Dance at York University, Canada’s National Ballet School and the Toronto School Board. 

Since moving to Vancouver five years ago, Nicole has continued to add to her almost twenty years of teaching experience at Arts Umbrella, Modus Operandi, Ballet B.C. and Simon Fraser University and has served as choreographer for several independent plays.  

Nicole is passionate about the pedagogy of the Graham Technique whilst honouring those who have come before her.  Nicole is beyond grateful that her vocation encompasses doing what she loves and is humbled by, and indebted to, the unique and beautiful arts community that she calls home.