ALMA DANCE THEATER Miami Beach Artist

 

1036 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL

ALMA DANCE THEATER Miami Beach Artist

Is a female-centric performing group, created and directed by Marissa Alma Nick, and voted BEST DANCE COMPANY of 2018 in the Miami New Times. Taking on millennial-fem social issues through dance, this girl gang unapologetically reveals their mind, body, and soul to you in a way that makes YOU feel seen.  The company was deemed "provocative, intelligent & unexpected" by the New Times, and as "the freshest dance troupe in Miami" by the Huffington Post. 

Alma Dance Theater was founded in the fall of 2014. The company premiered its first official performance for the Miami Design District, AND their site-specific commission for the show “Transpositions: Over Many Miles”, activating the work of visual artist Paula Crown. Since its establishment, ALDT has made its mark on the cultural arts scene that is Miami, and has been gratefully supported by their hometown. The company has been awarded a Knight Arts Award ; presented through The Pentacle Gallery at the American Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) ; performed at Faena Art Forum, Faena Hotel, Fashion Fights Cancer, Art Basel Miami and Dance USA ; commissioned by visual artists Amanda Season, Magnus Sodamin, Alejandro Guzman, Christina Pettersson ;  and has successfully self produced multiple theatrical main stages, site-specific and screendances.

Marissa Alma Nick was born in Miami, Florida, and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Nick received a high school degree from the New World School of the Arts (2003) and received her BFA in Dance-Performance from the University of South Florida (2007), as well as continuing her education through the Creative Capital Professional Development Program (2016 - 2019). Her practices include choreographing and directing for live and immersive dance-theater, writing books and screenplays, and directing screen-dances (specific dance-for-camera projects). In 2015, Marissa established her own dance performance company, Alma Dance Theater, which has produced four full-length live and immersive shows in Miami, Florida: “Flowers” (2015), “Cask”(2018), “Rebel In Venus”(2020), and most recently, her adaptation of “Giselle” (2022); as well as collaborating with notable Miami, Florida venues like Showfields Miami (2021), Faena (2019 - 2022), Vizcaya (2019), and Perez Art Museum Miami (2017 - 2023). Marissa was also the original founding Artistic Director of Screendance Miami, under the direction of Mary Luft and Tigertail Miami (2014 - 2016), and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami's, Musical Theater Department (2020 - 2021); as well as a guest choreographer at Nova University (2018, 2019), and a guest instructor at Miami Dade Community College (2015 - 2017). As of 2023, REBEL IN VENUS, is Marissa’s first published novel.