Nikki Flores

Nicole Flores (they/she) -- Nicole (Nikki) is a movement artist, dance educator, and personal trainer based in Seattle, Washington. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Nikki received her BFA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago before relocating to Los Angeles in 2018 where she received secondary training from The American Music and Dramatics Academy (AMDA) and performed with Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Psychopomp Dance Theater, and Heidi Duckler Dance. Nikki is a close collaborator with the Artistic Director of Psychopomp, Shenandoah Harris, with whom she co-facilitated three consecutive Psychopomp summer workshops (2020-2023). As a facilitator, Nikki strives to center community-building and somatic awareness in conjunction with strong technical foundations for the dancers they work with.

 Since moving to Seattle in 2021, Nikki has performed works by Coriolis Dance Collective, Dance Undercurrent, and Earthworks Dance. Nikki’s passion for live performance and deep curiosity for humanity in movement ultimately led her to badmarmarDANCE (Marlo Martin, Artistic Director), with whom she currently performs. Nikki is also a dance educator at eXit SPACE and Dance Fremont as well as a NASM certified personal trainer for their business Powerchord Movement. Her belief is that movement, and dance especially, is for everyone, so Nikki does her best to meet each student where they’re at while encouraging a balance between rigor and joy. As a trainer, Nikki focuses primarily on the functionality of the body and how each individual can fine tune their working parts for optimal freedom in everyday life. At home here in Seattle, Nikki is eager to see how dance and life will continue to unfold.