MISSION STATEMENT:

277DanceProject is committed to creating emotionally driven work, exploring the balance between chaos and stillness, the intersection of lives, and the eternal struggle to connect and to survive. Collaboration plays an integral part in the creation of each piece. Working with original music, visual art, and collaborating with theater artists enables us to create work that evokes empathy, emotion, and deeper meaning.

Nicole Philippidis is a native New Yorker who attended Marymount Manhattan College where she was granted a four-year dance scholarship, and earned her B.F.A. in Dance.  She earned her M.S. in Education from City College in 2003.  Nicole began choreographing professionally in 2005 and founded 277DanceProject in 2008. She has worked and studied with tremendous artists such as Geraldine Cardiel, Deborah Santos, Alan Danielson, and Sabatino Verlezza, who have influenced her movement style and inspired her to begin making dances. Nicole has taught modern dance technique, composition, and dance history classes for the NYC Department of Education, private schools, and studios. In 2007 and 2008 she was commissioned to create works for the Summer Arts Institute, and in 2009 for the Steffi Nossen Dance Company.  As the Artistic Director of 277DanceProject, Nicole has conceptualized and choreographed numerous performances. Her work has been presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, the Cunningham Studio, City Center Studios, Westchester Arts Exchange, Purchase College, Stuyvesant/Battery Park Theater, Green Space, as well as various festivals throughout NYC.


Nicole Philippidis, Artistic Director and Choreographer

Stacey Cervellino is an actress, writer, director, and teacher. She received her M.F.A. in Acting from Brandeis University, her B.A. from Union College, and studied Classical Acting at LAMDA in London. She has received work and study grants from the Fund for Teachers and the Fund for Contemporary Artists. As a movement theater artist, Stacey has been studying Action Theater with Movement Theatre innovator Ruth Zaporah for over ten years and was also trained by Susan Dibble, of Shakespeare and Company and Dibble Dance. A member of Brave New World Rep, she is the Education Director for Brave New World Studio, and has taught in various Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in the U.S., in the New York City School system. She is currently an adjunct professor at NYU in the Steinhart School. As a performer she has been seen in plays and musicals in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Washington D.C., and Boston. Former Artistic Director of Isadora Productions, her work was featured in American Theater Magazine. With Isadora Productions, Stacey performed and toured their original piece exploring Human Trafficking, called Becoming Natasha, which made its New York debut at The Culture Project. Working collaboratively with actors, dancers, musicians, and a videographer, Stacey performed in, directed, and created the script and music for a social satire about the 1950's called DRESS. A hybrid of highly stylized theater, physical theater, and musical theater, DRESS incorporated live music and video as an integral part of the production.



Stacey Cervellino, Director and Collaborator

277DanceProject and Stacey Cervellino have begun a collaboration: an exploration of the intersection of the worlds of theater and dance…experimenting with text, music, and video: creating original work that inspires, moves, and connects with our audience.