Jamie Nichols

Executive Producer Jamie Nichols was the Artistic Director and founder of the Pasadena based contemporary dance company Fast Feet for 23 years. Until retiring her dance company in 2003 she self-produced her work in festivals and venues throughout California. A passionate and technically articulate teacher, critically acclaimed for the emotional intensity and eloquence of her dancing and choreography, taught dance & movement professionally in Los Angeles since 1978 and choreographed and danced for film & video. She has been nominated in past years for several Lester Horton Dance Awards and was the recipient of four Lester Horton Dance Awards most recently, recipient of the 2007 Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Producing a Festival or Series for Celebrate Dance 2006. Ms. Nichols is the marketing director, fundraiser, press contact and sole producer of Celebrate Dance http://www.celebratedance.org. She has also produced: modern dance icon Marion Scott’s Spirit Dances 10 at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, the fabulously successful 16th Annual Lester Horton Dance Awards (the “Academy Awards” of California Concert Dance), Co-Produced The Los Angeles Dance Invitational-A Tribute To Stanley Holden and Co-Produced with Theater Bethune, Ray Bradbury’s FROST and FIRE at the Alex Theatre November 2007. She has just been nominated for another Lester Horton Dance Award for her festival CELEBRATE DANCE 2007.