Nicole Pierce is a choreographer, dancer, performance artist and video maker. She founded and ran EgoArt, Inc., a dance theater company, for which she created more than 30 works. Her work is hailed as “expansive, muscular movement etched with vivid detail.” A classically trained pianist and teacher, much of her output is musically inspired, leaning on rhythm, texture and innate musicality. She collaborates regularly with painter/sculptor Michael Prettyman, with whom she creates dances for camera using found or invented art environments. Lastly, Pierce is a monologist skirting the line of standup comedy, wherein she uses autobiographical content to tell universal stories.