Nicole Mion - Director, Choreographer, Filmmaker, Producer
Nicole Mion creates for the stage and screen. Known for her highly theatrical and physical style, she is a sought after director and contemporary choreographer for various film production companies, dance companies, and theatre companies. Recent projects include assistant director with filmmaker Daniel Conrad (Vancouver) and choreographer Paul Andre Fourtier (Montreal) on the creation of 7 Universal Solvents, writer and director for the documentary When Eve Wore Heels, mastermind behind the video installation The Conversation involving projections on opposing walls encouraging the viewer to watch between the action of two performers, and co-creator for the feature film Visible Heat.

Upcoming stage work as director and choreographer includes I was looking at the ceiling and THEN I SAW THE SKY for One Yellow Rabbit's 2005 High Performance Rodeo and for the National Arts Centre's Alberta Scene Festival (April 2005).

Other selected work includes direction and choreography for the International DaCI Conference in Brazil (Aug 03), choreography for the feature film The Girl Who Married a Ghost, presentations at the American Dance Festival International Festival of Dance-Film (Durham, USA), and inclusion in the best of Canadian dance film in Reel Dance Canada (Dusseldorf), Edmonton International Film Festival, New Dance Horizons (Regina), Brian Webb Dance Company (Edmonton), DSW (Calgary) Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), and the Moving Pictures Festival national dance-video tour (Canada). She choreographed for the opening ceremonies of the 2001 IAAF World Games (Edmonton) which had a live audience of 60,000 and a broadcast audience of over 4 billion. In 2000, Nicole won the Paula Citron award for most outstanding choreography at fFIDA - Canada's International fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (Toronto).

Nicole's work has been produced at the Lincoln Centre (New York), The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff), Los Dias de la Danza (Cuba), The KISS Project / Judith Marcuse (Vancouver), Yerba Buena Arts Centre (San Francisco), Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (Calgary), the Canadian Stage Company (Toronto), The Brian Webb Dance Company (Edmonton), and over 20 works for Springboard Dance (Calgary) where she is a founding member, co-artistic director, and currently artistic associate.

Film and video work, as director, writer and choreographer for Road Pictures, the film-production company run by Nicole Mion and Sandi Somers, include script development for the feature film Visible Heat, development of the comedy series Mascot with co-producer EmerimageSPECTRA (Monteal), Porcelain Tattoo (Bravo!FACT) which was screened at The Calgary International Film Festival and the Moving Pictures national tour, the comedy $9.99 Haircut featuring Michael Green (Bravo!FACT); the dance film series The Riders (Bravo!FACT) featuring Andrea Gunnlaugson, Denise Clarke, Stephen Thompson and Sean Ling, which was selected to represent Canada at screenings in Europe as part of Reel Dance Canada, screened at the Ghetty Museum in Los Angeles, premiered at the 2002 Moving Pictures Festival, and toured with the Moving Pictures national tour, screened at the Edmonton International Film Festival, and the 2003 American Dance Festival; ScreamingFISH, a half-hour broadcast-length dance film (Bravo!); AMPIA film and television award winner for 'best music video' Extreme to Me (Road Pictures/Bravo!FACT) which has been highlighted at The Moving Pictures Festival 2001 (Toronto), Videopoem Festival (Vancouver), Brighton Festival (UK) Seattle Poetry Festival, and NXNE (Toronto). Other works include the AMPIA winner Map Girl which is aired on Bravo!FACT, The Yellow Line which airs on WTN, and The Road Project, a series of contemporary dance videos which take place on roads across Alberta.

Nicole's work is aired on Bravo! Television, the Comedy Network, Knowledge Network, Comedy Central, the Women's Television Network, Independent Film Channel, and in rotation on Air Canada in-flight broadcasts. Nicole's work was selected to represent Canada at the 1999 INPUT Conference (USA), Dance USA @ the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, featured at the Glenbow Museum (Calgary) and broadcast in Milan (Italy) as part of Accademia 2000.

Nicole is funded by Bravo!FACT, CHUM TV, The Canada Council, Telefilm, The National Film Board, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Calgary Region Arts Foundation, and AMPIA - Alberta Motion Pictures Industries Association. She currently sits on the board of the Alberta Dance Alliance and is a member of the Alberta Motion Pictures Association.

"... mastery of physical and emotional intensity."
Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail

" Her works speak to the audience in a manner that is humorous and powerful."
Lance Lim, The Peak, Vancouver

"The most scandalously carnal eating of blackberries ever captured on film."
NOW Magazine, Toronto