Dr Nicola Haskins

Dr Nicola Haskins
TOPIC: Moving Unspeakables: Embodied witnessing within an aesthetic experience as reflective wellness intervention in organisations (with Lurinda Maree & Prof Marié-Heleen Coetzee)
Nicola Haskins is an award-winning embodied moving researcher, choreographer, and dancer who has performed nationally and internationally over the last 20 years. She is a full-time lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology in the Performing Arts, Dance Stream. She has an MA degree with distinction in Drama from the University of Pretoria. She completed her BA with distinction in Drama and Psychology. She was a performer for the First Physical Theatre Company for 4 years. She has won three Standard Bank Ovation Awards and a Gold Ovation Award for her company’s production, The Anatomy of Weather. Her company, The Matchbox Theatre Collective, founded with Bailey Snyman, has produced and performed a variety of works nationally and internationally. She toured for 10 years in Dada Masilo’s Swan Lake throughout Europe, America, and Asia. Nicola is committed to teaching and learning practices; specifically choreographic practice and how new approaches and methods can be explored. She has recently completed her PhD study at the University of Pretoria entitled: Decolonial Storying: embodied memory in facilitating choreographic composition and graduates in September 2023. She is in the process of becoming a certified movement analyst (CMA) through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.