Nicole Love was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She began dancing at the tender age of thirteen.
During high school, she was under the direction of dance teacher Chielle Martin, dedicating her time as an advanced dance member and company dance member. She served as a dance captain for the varsity cheerleaders, supporting the basketball and football teams.
After graduating from high school, Nicole became an undergraduate student at Arizona State University and was accepted into the Dance program at Herberger College of the Arts.
Chandler-Gilbert Community College was where she continued her journey through dance and became a member of the CGCC Dance Company. She pursued improv techniques in ballet, jazz, modern, and hip hop. Nicole began to explore other genres of music for dance such as salsa, through South Mountain Community College Performing Arts Center, accompanied by Liliana De-Leon Torsiello. Nicole dedicated her time giving her all as a solo dancer and in group performances. She currently holds an associate’s degree in dance from Chandler Gilbert Community College.
Nicole creates and organizes group dances for events, churches, etc. She can work with a small group to large groups of 50 or more. She has coordinated Waltz, Line Dance and choreographed signature routines for Quinceañera birthday parties. She also instructed ballet in pre-school settings and small dance studios around the valley. With her experience in choreography in play and productions, Nicole has also had the pleasure of being a part of some great communities, which she is still working with today. Seek First Entertainment, New Groove Entertainment, Triple RRR Productions, and Evolution, a Tina Turner Tribute to name a few. She has choreographed and danced in award-winning play productions such as Black Women Walking and ASU For Colored Girls. She even starred in a short film called “Meeting the Challenge, The College Tour,” featured on Amazon Prime.
Nicole specializes in choreography, Contemporary Jazz, Hip-Hop, praise dance/Mime and Cheer/Pom Dance. Demonstrating her experience, she has learned over the past seventeen years of dedication to this artistry.
Nicole first began praise dancing at the age of eight, with a small group of girls, through First Christian Fellowship Baptist Church. At the age of twelve, Nicole had her first experience, serving as a youth leader, praise dancer, and choreographer in the Dance/Performing Arts Ministry while attending New Hope Christian Church.
Her inspiration and leadership of dance came from a big sister in Christ, Cressi Mayo. Cressi was her push to become her own independent minister in dance. Over the course of her young adult life, Nicole began producing stage production dances, and plays. She ministered as an independent mime and praise dancer throughout her high school years and college. This experience exposed her to True Love Waits conferences, women’s conferences, Mother’s Day teas, and church anniversaries. She has served in multiple ministries throughout the valley, such as Greater Impact Church, Life Changers Worship Center, Real Life Ministries, and Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, to name a few.
Today, Nicole continues to pursue opportunities teaching ministry dance as well as dance in the community. Conclusively, she is blessed and elated to be the owner of The High Table Art of Dance Company. The start of a vision to build a performing Arts dance school right here in the valley.