Nichele Woods teaching résumé

Universities

2021-2025 — Utah Valley University | Lecturer ‘24-’25, Adjunct ‘21-’24

  • Modern Technique IV (Advanced Modern majors) - Spring 2023/2025

  • Modern Technique III (Int/Adv Modern majors) - Fall 2023; Spring 2025

  • Choreography (Modern Dance Program) - Spring 2021/2025

  • Improvisation (1st year majors) - Spring 2025

  • Beginning Modern - Fall 2024; Spring 2025

  • Current Issues in Dance (4th year writing + research course) - Fall 2024

  • Modern Technique II (2nd year majors) - Fall 2024

  • Modern Technique I (1st year majors) - Spring 2023; Spring/Summer/Fall 2024

  • Modern Dance Workshop - Fall 2021/2022/2023

  • Orientation to Dance (1st year majors) - Fall 2024

  • Dance as an Art Form (GE Arts Course) - Fall 2023

2022 — Weber State University | Adjunct

  • Intro to Dance (GE Writing Course) - Spring 2022

  • Ballet II/III - Spring 2022

  • Conditioning and Alignment - Spring 2022

2016-2019 — University of Utah | Graduate Teaching Assistantship

  • Composition Workshop (Freshmen Modern majors) - Spring 2018

  • Dance Appreciation - Online (non-majors) - Spring 2018

  • Dance Appreciation - Live (Non-Majors) - Spring 2018

  • Conditioning for Dancers (Freshmen Modern majors) - Fall 2018

  • Freshman Seminar (Modern majors; co-taught with Ballet) - Fall 2018

  • Non-Majors Beginning Modern Dance Technique - Fall 2018

  • Non-Majors Dance Composition - Fall 2017

  • Dance Appreciation - Online (non-majors) - Spring 2018 - TA

  • Dance History (Modern Dance majors) - Spring 2018 - TA

  • Movement in Culture (Upper Div. Writing GE) - Fall 2017 - TA

  • Non-Majors Dance Composition - Spring 2017

  • Dance History (Ballet majors) - Spring 2017 - TA

  • Non-Majors Dance Composition - Fall 2016 - TA

2015-2016 — Sonoma State University | Adjunct

  • Contemporary Dance Level II-IV (Fall and Spring semesters)

  • Ensemble; Course Instructor and Director of the Fall Dance Concert (Fall 2015)

Studios

2024-Present — The Woods Dance Project

  • Open adult pre- and professional level Contemporary Release Technique

2019-2023 — Ballet West Academy

  • Resident Choreographer and Coordinator for Current

  • Contemporary - Trainee program + Professional Training Division

  • Contemporary - Levels 1-8, Thanksgiving Point Campus in Lehi, UT

  • Contemporary/Yoga - Summer Intensives 2020, 2021, 2022

  • Private student coaching in Modern Dance and Student Choreography

2019-2022 — Tanner Dance

  • Ballet for the teen modern dance companies

2014-2016 — Shawl-Anderson Dance Center

  • Ballet III - age 10-12

  • Beginning Teen Ballet

  • Modern - age 10-12

  • Sub for youth modern classes - all levels

  • Sub for adult beginning ballet

  • Yoga for youth summer intensives

2015-2016 — Barefoot Movement

  • Vinyasa Flow yoga — various adult open class levels

2011-2015 — Sebastopol Ballet School

  • Sub for adult and youth ballet classes

2011-2016 — Various SF Bay Area Studios

  • Sub for adult and youth modern and ballet at various studios, including ROCO Dance and Fitness, ODC/Dance, and Sonoma State University.

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