“For women, to express ourselves and have control over and say over our body — especially in dance, it’s so cathartic,” says Marissa Alma Nick, founder of an all-female crew in Miami that gives a platform to be unapologetically powerful. (KQED)
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Starting her own dance company was always part of the plan for Miami-born artist Marissa Alma Nick. Even as early as middle school, she knew she wanted to be a choreographer. “That’s how you have power,” she remembers thinking. “Like Martha Graham.” With training in ballet, jazz, hip-hop and contemporary dance, Nick worked for five years as a professional dancer in Los Angeles, but she still wasn’t sure of her own voice—or where she would put down roots to achieve that childhood goal.in her hometown, she couldn’t resist the pull to move back to Miami. The city had a funding infrastructure for dance, space to rehearse and perform, and Nick says, “people who were open, willing to support artists and let you in their doors and just explore.
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