College of Arts and Sciences — Performing Arts — Dance

Megan Nicely

Assistant Professor, Dance

Megan Nicely is a dancer/choreographer and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. She has performed in the US, UK, and Europe, most recently at the Edinburgh International Festival as a butoh dancer in the Handel opera Admeto, under the direction of Doris Dörrie and Tadashi Endo. Based in the Bay Area for many years, her group Megan Nicely & Company has received grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, American Composers Forum, and Theatre Bay Area. She has published in TDR, Performance Research, Contact Quarterly, Dancer Magazine, and In Dance, taught in the Performing Arts and Social Justice program at the University of San Francisco, served on the board of the Field/SF, worked as a non-profit bookkeeper for the Magic Theatre, and recently ended a 2-year stint as Managing Editor for TDR. Her current collaborations involve dance, video, and live sound.