Teacher

Nol Simonse

Nol Simonse grew up in Washington, D.C., and trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music. He moved to San Francisco in 1997 and is a founding member of Kunst-Stoff, (artistic directors Tomi Paasonen and Yannis Adoniou) who he danced with for ten years. Nol has worked with Janice Garrett since the inception of her company, Janice Garrett and Dancers, in 2001, and continued with her and her partner, Charles Moulton, when they formed Garrett+Moulton Productions. He has danced, toured and taught with Sean Dorsey Dance since 2007. He is also a longtime collaborator/performer of Sue Roginski, Eric Kupers, Christy Funsch, Stephen Pelton, and Kara Davis. Nol has worked with many Bay Area artists, including Mark Foehringer, Mary Armentrout, Della Davidson, ACT director Carey Perloff and choreographer Val Caniparoli. Nol was awarded an Isadora Duncan Bay Area Dance Award in 2011 for individual performance "for his entire season, including A.C.T.'s The Tosca Project”, and in 2009 Nol received a GOLDIE for dance (Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery) from Rita Felciano, who has called Nol "an intense artist", and "a marvel of a dancer". Nol was the first person to win Luna Dance Institute's Choreofund prize, and Dance Teacher Magazine published an interview with him in the September, 2016 issue. Nol currently teaches modern techni in the Bay Area. He has taught choreography, repertory, and performance workshops for adults and teens, and has made dances for Diablo Ballet, the Lines summer program, students at USF, Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble, ODC's Dance Jam, and Dance Mission Theater's Grrrl Brigade. Nol produced eight seasons of 'Shared Space' with Todd Eckert at Dance Mission Theater from 2007-2016 and has had residencies at Dance Mission and Studio 210. Nol was one of the 25 nominated artists to create a dance for the 25th anniversary season of the West Wave Dance Festival, and was a mentee of Margaret Jenkins in 2017 for her CHIME Program.