Nol Simones

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, Janice Garrett and Dancers, Garrett+Moulton Productions, and Sean Dorsey Dance. 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 Deborah Slater, Mary Armentrout, Della Davidson, Carey Perloff, Val Caniparoli, Nancy Karp, and Mary Carbonara. Nol was awarded an Isadora Duncan Bay Area Dance Award  in 2011 for individual performance , and in 2009 received a GOLDIE for dance (Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery). Nol currently teaches modern technique at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and ODC. He has taught choreography, repertory, and performance workshops for adults and teens, and has made dances for Robert Moses’ Kin, 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, Studio 210, and the iMPACt center. Nolwas 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. Nol has self- produced much of his own artistic work, including ‘death pod’ at Counterpulse in 2022, and ‘Process and Community’ at Dance Mission in 2023. He created a piece for the Queering Dance Festival in 2024, and is a member of the choreographic collective ‘the straw dogs’.