Calendar

2026

Jan 28 - Feb 7 | Lunar Retreat Full Technical Residency and work in-progress showings at FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA

March 31, 5:30 - 7:30pm | Lunar Retreat workshop for blind/low vision participants hosted by Temple Institute for Disabilities at the Tech Owl Community space, Philadelphia, PA

April 8, 5:30 - 7:30pm | Lunar Retreat community workshop, Dornsife Community Center, Philadelphia, PA

April 15, 5:30 - 7:30pm | Lunar Retreat community workshop, Dornsife Community Center, Philadelphia, PA

April 21 - May 9 | Artist Residency and work in-progress showings Kayenta Cultural Park, Kayenta, Utah

June 1 - 22 | Artist Residency and work in-progress showings, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center's Arts Center on Governors Island in NYC

Sept 6 - 22 | Premiere of Lunar Retreat presented by the FringeArts Festival, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2025

September 6 – 7 | Work-in-progress showing of Lunar Retreat at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY Tickets HERE

July 28 – Aug 7 | Ensemble creation residency for Lunar Retreat at Subcircle in Maine

April 22 – May 22 | Solo artist residency at Bogliasco Center in Liguria, Italy

February + March | Workshops and showings for Lunar Retreat in Philadelphia

2024

Sept 6 – 22 | The Garden: River’s Edge premiere at Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2024

Aug 4 – 9 | Artist Residency, Lacawac Sanctuary Field Station, Lake Ariel, PA

April 30 – May 7 | The Garden: River’s Edge preview run at Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA

2023

June 29 – July 8 | The Garden: Lunar Gaze, Sardinia, Italy

May | The River’s Course at Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital, Mezi Ploty Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

2022

October | Artist Residency, Subcircle, Biddeford, ME

August | Being/With site visit, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

June – July | Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

June 7 – 12 | The Garden: Sweden, Swedish Biennale for the Performing Arts, Västerås, Sweden

2021

September 10 – October 3 | Premiere of Being/With: Live, Philadelphia, PA

May 12 – June 5 | The Garden: Invisible Branches at Philadelphia Museum of Art

May 18 – 21 | Being/With:Home at Swedish Performing Arts Coalition, Stockholm Sweden

February 11 – 24 | Being/With:Home at John Kohler Arts Center

February 25 – March 14 | Being/With:Home at Bates Dance Festival

2020

October | Being/With:Home at Whitman College

September 10 – October 3 | Premiere of Being/With: Home at Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2020

January 12-13 | Work in progress showings of Being/With at LaMama, New York, NY

2019

November 20 – 24 | Dancing Lab Residency, Akron, OH | Nichole Canuso was guest choreographer for a Dancing Lab’s residency at The National Center for Choreography at University of Akron. The project brought together two leading integrated dance companies: Axis Dance Company and Dancing Wheels

Saturday, November 16 | Our Annual Fundraiser, The Hunt for the Red October Lobster

October 6 – 8 | Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Onésimo, Guadalajara, Mexico | The Garden

September 9th | Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, PA | Today’s Elegies, a benefit cabaret

September 6 – 10 | Theatre Exile, part of Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA | Sneakers, a solo by Nichole Canuso

August 2 | Dance Omi, Ghent, NY | Public showing

May | The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA | Residency

March 1 – 3 | FringeArts, part of High Pressure Fire Service Series, Philadelphia, PA | A Fierce Kind of Love, choreographed by Nichole Canuso

Friday, January 29 | Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Wintry Mix / Performance Festival, curated and performed by Nichole Canuso

2018

Saturday, October 27 | Philadelphia, PA | The Hunt for Red October Lobster benefit for NCDC

October 19 – 21 | at Los Angeles Theatre Center during LAX Festival, hosted by Los Angeles Performance Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Pandæmonium, click HERE for more info and tickets

Wednesday, October 3 | The Performance Garage, Philadelphia, PA
Danube/Schuykill Budapest/Philadelphia Dance Artists

Wednesday, June 6 | Philadelphia, PA | The Octopus and the Interview showing, click HERE for more info.

March 1 – 18 | Peterborough, NH | The MacDowell Colony Artist Residency

2017

Saturday, December 2 | Philadelphia, PA
Body of Text showing, click HERE for more info and/or to RSVP

Saturday, October 14 | Philadelphia, PA
The Hunt for Red October Lobster benefit for NCDC

May 8 – June 17 | Bok Building, Philadelphia, PA
The Garden of Forking Paths

2016

October 20 – 30 | A.R.T. at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Garden short version performances

September 28 – October 1 | NYLA, New York, NY
Pandæmonium performances

September 14 – 18 | FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA
Pandæmonium premiere

2015

Saturday, October 24, 2015 | Philadelphia, PA
The Hunt for Red October Lobster benefit for NCDC

September 17 – October 8, 2015 | Budapest, Hungary
BILATERAL Budapest/ Philadelphia Dance Artist Residency Exchange

August 27 – 30, 2015 | HERE, New York, NY | Midway Avenue performances

June 28 – July 14. 2015 | University of Maryland
residency for CoPresence: Pandemonium

June 15 – 21, 2015 | The Orchard, Saratoga Springs, NY residency and short version performance of The Garden

May 14, 2015 | Philadelphia, PA showing of The Octopus and the Interview

2014

October 5 – 11, 2014 | Maggie Alessee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) in Tallahassee, FL residency leading explorations with Axis Dance Company

September 10, September 11, September 12, 2014 | The Clarice, College Park Maryland | The Garden performances

Friday, May 2, Saturday, May 3, Sunday, May 4, 2014 | FringeArts, Philadelphia | Midway Avenue premiere

Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26, and Sunday, April 27, 2014 | Velocity Founders Theater, Seattle | Midway Avenue, short version, SCUBA touring network

Saturday, April 19, Sunday, April 20, 2014 | ODC Theater, San Francisco | Midway Avenue, short version, SCUBA touring network

Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15, 2014 | Conwell Dance Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia | Midway Avenue, short version, SCUBA touring network

Friday, March 7, Saturday, March 8, 2014 | Ritz Theater, Minneapolis | Midway Avenue, short version, SCUBA touring network

2013

December, 2013 | Midway Avenue | London workshops

November 1-17, 2013 | PowerPlant Productions, Philadelphia | The Garden premiere | 233 N. Bread Street, Old City

September 13-21, 2013 | PowerPlant Productions, Philadelphia | The Garden previews

Saturday, May 11, 2013 | Latvian Society, Philadelphia | NCDC Benefit

2012

December 14, 2012 | Underground Arts, Philadelphia | Excerpt of work-in-progress Midway Avenue (then titled Kitchen Sink) for the National Performance Network annual meeting

September 5 – December 8, 2012 | American Philosophical Society Museum, Philadelphia | Return Return Departure | APS Jefferson Garden, 104 South Fifth Street in conjunction with the exhibition TEMPUS FUGIT: Time Flies by Antonia Contro

September 14, 15 and 16, 2012 | Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio | TAKES | Warehouse 32

July 2012 | Austerlitz, New York | Residency at Millay Colony for the Arts for development of The Garden

June 2012 | FringeArts, Philadelphia | Lecture Demonstration for DMD/DM with Guest Wendy Houstoun

Thursday, January 5 – Sunday, January 8, 2012 | 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York | TAKES