Nicole Stanton is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University. An artist, educator, and leader, she is also a Professor of Dance, African American Studies, and Environmental Studies. Her choreographic work explores the intersections between personal, cultural, and physical experiences with an eye towards celebrating the complexities of black cultures and creating platforms that cultivate
community. Her artistic practice emphasizes collaboration, including work with historians, scientists, anthropologists, musicians and media artists.

Nicole recently received awards from the Albers Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Connecticut Office of the Arts. Her choreography has been showcased at venues such as the Center for Performance Research, and the 92nd Street Y in New York; the Katherine Hepburn Theater in Connecticut; the Minnesota Dance Alliance in Minneapolis; the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, and Pro Danza Italia in Italy, amongst others. She has presented her scholarship at the Congress on Research in Dance, the Society of Dance History Scholars and the National Dance Educators Association. She is a member of the New Horizons Women’s Shelter Community Advisory Board and served as an advocate for the Regional Dance Development Initiative through the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is currently studying to be a Somatic Movement Educator through the School for Body Mind Centering.