Stefanie Nelson founded and directs StefanieNelson Dancegroup (SND), a contemporary performance group based in NYC and DANCEITALIA, an international Summer dance program in Lucca, Italy. She approaches her work intuitively, distilling deeply personal ideas into highly kinetic, expressive and provocative works rooted in cross-media collaboration with artists working in music, video and visual arts. Her work has been described as ‘instinctual, untamed and edgy’. Entering the dance field as a performer, notably as a soloist with Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project, Nelson is an accomplished teacher as well having been invited to many studios and educational institutions worldwide. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) identified her as an ‘Emerging Leader’ in the field of dance. She’s served as a Choreography panelist for NYFA’s prestigious Artists’ Fellowship awards as well as for the Joyce Theater and local NYC dance festivals. SND has received recent support from the National Endowment of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts and the West Harlem Development Corporation. Nelson collaborated with fashion designer Terrence Zhou for Bad Binch TONGTONG’s New York Fashion Week SS23 debut and SS24. Nelson choreographed Plan-B, a feature film starring Diane Keaton and opened Motore592, a new center for contemporary performance art in Lucca, IT.
The College of Arts