NICOLE KLAYMOON

Nicole Klaymoon is a choreographer, poet, visual artist, and founder/co-director of Embodiment Project (EP). EP is a Bay Area Performing Arts Organization whose purpose is to uplift the ancestral and primordial power of dance as an act of resistance, collective healing, and social transformation. As a white/jewish woman, Klaymoon is committed to anti-racist embodiment, shifting power dynamics, and accountability. Rooted in Kingian Nonviolence, intersectionality, sociocracy, restorative practices, and eco-feminism/womanism, Klaymoon’s work aims to amplify the voices of movement leaders and raise awareness around the hidden pandemic of childhood sexual violence. Klaymoon was selected as a KQED Woman to Watch and a resident choreographer at ODC Theater, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the National Center for Choreography Akron. In 2014 Klaymoon co-founded SEEDS, the first hip hop youth dance company at the ODC dance school. Klaymoon has served on faculty in the Department of Performing Arts and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco and has worked as a guest artist at Arizona State University, Mills College, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, and Bates College Summer Dance Festival. She choreographed the dance films, "The Wind Telephone" and "Chrysalis", sponsored by the SF Film Festival’s Co-Lab and NCCAkron. As a solo artist, she has created and toured a dance theater production titled "Sixth Vowel", choreographed by Rennie Harris, and directed by Kamilah Forbes of the NYC Hip Hop Theatre Festival.