Choreographer

Nicole Morel

Rigoletto

Biography

Nicole Morel is a Swiss choreographer and director, and was choreographer in Rossini’s William Tell for Irish National Opera. She is a graduate of the Hamburg Ballet School (2003) and holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Dramaturgy and Text Performance from the University of Lausanne and Manufacture Haute École des Arts de la Scène (2022). Her professional career began as a dancer in Madrid in 2003, at Compañía Nacional de Danza 2, under the direction of Nacho Duato and Tony Fabre. She continued as a soloist at ballettmainz (Mainz) and then at Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf and Duisburg under the direction of Martin Schläpfer. Strengthened by an international career and in search of other artistic landscapes, she founded the Antipode company in 2014 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Her creations have been presented throughout Switzerland and internationally across Germany, Czech Republic, Australia, Brazil and Colombia. From 2019 to 2022, Nicole was awarded the YAA! – Young Associated Artist program – in partnership with Théâtre Equilibre, Nuithonie, Fribourg and Pro Helvetia, as part of the Swiss Arts Council. Since 2017, she has collaborated on dozens of opera and musical theatre productions, as choreographer and director, often in collaboration with director Julien Chavaz, most recently in Paul Abraham’s Die Blume von Hawaii (Theater Magdeburg). Nicole is also an active board member across multiple organisations including Coopérative la Maison des Artistes, Studio Danse +, BURO and Action-Danse Fribourg, to develop and improve conditions for professional dance artists.

November 2024