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Nicholas Palmquist is an internationally recognized teacher and choreographer. As a freelance dancer in New York City, his eclectic work experience has ranged from films like In The Heights and episodes of SNL, The Tonight Show, and Netflix Original Series; to live performances with American Dance Machine, on the Tony Awards, and with the Radio City Rockettes....Read more
Nicholas Palmquist is an internationally recognized teacher and choreographer. As a freelance dancer in New York City, his eclectic work experience has ranged from films like In The Heights and episodes of SNL, The Tonight Show, and Netflix Original Series; to live performances with American Dance Machine, on the Tony Awards, and with the Radio City Rockettes. Nicholas and his movement have been featured in Vogue Magazine, CFDAxVogue Gala, Numero China, Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Tanz Magazine, Vogue Mexico, Nordstrom, Kenzo, Zalando, and at NYFW.
He has taught Masterclasses with Juilliard, NYU, ABT Studio Company and JKO, Mozarteum University Salzburg, Joffrey Ballet, Monterrey International Ballet Gala, Henny Jurriens Amsterdam, and annual workshops at Orsolina 28 in Italy.
He continues to develop his genre bending movement language. Nicholas has accepted invitations to teach in Italy, Spain, the Philippines, France, London, Germany, Brazil, Austria, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Paraguay, Shanghai, Japan, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland.
While living abroad, Nicholas has created world premieres with Semperoper Ballett, Ballett x Schwerin, and Palucca University. He has hosted workshops with University der Kunst Berlin, and with Staatsballett Berlin and their educational program Tanz ist Klasse
You can also interact with Nicholas online, via his Dance Masterclass series; The Art of Teaching Dance.
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Class Descriptions
The movement language of Quist Method is an amalgam of my experiences in life, fashion, TV/film, theater, and contemporary dance; developed through the lens of freelance education in order to process, supplement, or reject the information or experiences that don’t elevate the learning process. As an educator, using this method to speak more objectively about my ideas will prioritize the space for other people's emotions and lived experiences to grow within the framework of my imagination. This neutrality is an important variable when teaching one’s own style of movement. The Emotional Ergonomics considered within Quist Method gives both, teacher and student permission to take themselves seriously and can provide boundaries to respect this happening within artistic and emotional story telling.
Nicholas likes to pull from different mediums of dance to create new ways of story telling, highlighting the humanity in dance and in dancers. He aims for a fresh and also nostalgic relationship with musicality that celebrates the nuance in orchestration from pop to rock to jazz and everywhere in between. He combines soulful rhythms from his tap background with a smooth sensuality discovered in his commercial endeavors to explore as many ways of moving and expressing human emotion through dance as possible. Nicholas likes to challenge his dancers to explore the scope of their expression by creating emotional and intimate conversations as well as explosive, joyful articulations that move! Nicholas has a huge passion for dance and is grateful for any opportunity to share it.