NICKERSON-ROSSI DANCE
NRD is on a mission to engage, inspire, and ignite the mind, body, and senses, by using dance as a language to reach multiple audiences.
NRD produces professional, educational, therapeutic, and community-centric dance programming to excite the arts community, provide space for and nurturing of new, innovative, and creative programs, provide equitable access for youth to train and excel in dance, and provide opportunities for under-invited communities to experience dance at a high caliber platform.
We plan to place the Coachella Valley on the map for being known as a mecca for dance and its representative dance company, Nickerson-Rossi Dance.
2023/24
PROFESSIONAL SEASON
April 4th - 7th, 2024
8th Annual Palm Springs International Dance Festival
@ Nickerson-Rossi's Dance House
SOLD OUT
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July 29th - August 3rd, 2024
Apprenticeship Program
@ Nickerson-Rossi's Dance House
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2023/24
YOUTH & EDUCATION SEASON
April 4th - 7th, 2024
8th Annual Palm Springs International Dance Festival
@ Palm Springs Art Museum's Annenberg Theater
Tickets not on sale yet
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May 4th, 2024
Academy Summer Dance Concert (Level 1 - 3)
@ Nickerson-Rossi's Dance House
Tickets not on sale yet
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May 5th, 2024
Academy Summer Dance Concert (Kids Classes K - 8th)
@ Palm Desert High School
Tickets not on sale yet
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May 23rd, 2024
Nickerson-Rossi Dance & Palm Springs Unified
@ Sunnylands Center and Gardens
Free Public Program
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May 30th, 2024
Nickerson-Rossi Dance & Desert Sands Unified
@ Sunnylands Center and Gardens
Free Public Program
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July 29 - Aug 3rd, 2024
DIRECT/LINK
@ Palm Springs and Palm Desert Studios
Michael Nickerson-Rossi
Founder/ Artistic Director
Chad Allen Ortiz
Executive Director
THE ACADEMY
is the official school of the Nickerson-Rossi Dance Company located in Palm Springs and Palm Desert.
The Academy's mission is to provide comprehensive dance education for pre-professional dancers and to serve the community with enrichment, outreach, and equitable access to dance programming.
The faculty at Palm Springs Dance Academy will nurture and stimulate intellectual, artistic, and technical creativity.
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8th Annual Spring Gala
April 4th - 7th, 2024
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Fall Dancer Series
October 31st - November 2nd, 2024
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The Palm Springs International Dance Festival (PSIDF) exists to provide a platform for dance artists to produce and share their work, enhance the local communities of the Coachella Valley’s understanding of concert dance, provide comprehensive education to youth, to cultivate the sustainability of concert dance, and to celebrate diversity and world cultures.
The Nickerson-Rossi Dance Company is an internationally renowned contemporary dance company.
Top modern dancers in the industry are hired to perform in company performances, tour, and educate.
Dancers that aspire to work Nickerson-Rossi Dance are given the opportunity to train with the company through various college residencies and the apprenticeship training program.
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SCHOOL ALLIANCE
Nickerson-Rossi Dance Education launches its latest program, "School Alliance," to provide Unified School Districts throughout the Coachella Valley with quality dance classes and experiences with professional dancers!
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Currently providing services for
Palm Springs Unified School District
Desert Sands Unified School District
The City of Desert Hot Springs
Palm Valley School
Sacred Heart School
Palm Desert High School
