NICOLA MARTINEZ'S PERSONAL WEB SITE

Empire State College

Arts Administration and Artistic Direction

  1. Director, Sul Ross Ballet Folklorico De Las Americas, a university-funded dance company September 1997- October 2002.
  2. Director and Choreographer, The Desert Islanders Tahitian Dancers, January 1998- October 2002, a self-funding community group.
  3. Director and Choreographer, Terlingua Tahitians Folkloric Dance Ensemble, July 1996-Dec. 1998 a self-funding community group.
  4. Numerous performances at Sul Ross State University, as director, producer, choreographer, and dancer, from January 1997- October 2002, including: An Evening of Multicultural Music and Dance, a bi-annual performance featuring dances from a variety of world cultures, and the annual Heritage Festival.
  5. MA Thesis Performance: Two Tahitian Creation Myths: A Contemporary Tahitian Dance Enactment, with a cast of nine dancers and five musicians, which I directed, choreographed, wrote and narrated.
  6. Graduate One-Act play: Moe's Song. I directed, choreographed, and wrote a stage adaptation of a Tahitian fertility myth, combining drama, Tahitian dance, and live Tahitian drumming.
(Content from NicolaMartinez's personal web site.)