Can't You Hear Me Knocking?
During his residency at Orsolina28 Art Foundation, Nicholas Palmquist will create a new solo piece for the Festival of the Arts in Boca Raton (Florida, US).
Palmquist’s inspiration for the choreography will come from several pieces of music. He will then absorb those characters and their movement qualities into the solo, which will be performed to the song “Can’t you Hear Me Knocking?” by The Rolling Stones. Throughout the 10-day residency, he will build, deconstruct and rebuild this solo from a variety of perspectives that compliment and contradict themselves, much like the nature of adulthood.
Nicholas Palmquist
Nicholas Palmquist is an internationally recognised teacher and choreographer, currently based in Europe. As a freelance dancer in New York City, his eclectic work experience ranged from films, like “In The Heights” and episodes of SNL, TheTonight Show, and Netflix Original Series, to live performances with American Dance Machine at the Joyce Theater and Guggenheim Works and Process Series. He danced for Mia Michaels at Radio City Music Hall with The Rockettes, and again for Rob Ashford at The Tony Awards. Palmquist has partnered Diana Vishneva in an Edward Club original work and taught for her festival, “Context”, in both Moscow and St Petersburg, and recently created a world premiere for The Semperoper Ballet in Germany.
Palmquist has taught workshops for Staatsballett Berlin and their educational program TANZ IST KLASSE!, continuing to develop his genre bending movement language into a Method. From a pedagogic perspective, has worked to broaden his experiences by seeing his ideas translated across a variety of ages and levels of experience. In addition to his world-famous classes at Steps on Broadway in New York City, Palmquist has accepted invitations to teach in Italy, Spain, the Philippines, France, London, Germany, Brazil, Austria, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Paraguay, Shanghai, Japan, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland. During the pandemic, from the Instagram account, "@napalmquist”, Nicholas raised and coordinated thousands of dollars to help facilitate the relationship between dance spaces, artists, students, and patrons. His unique focus on artistry, education, and musicality has been hugely supported by social media and he is grateful and curious to be an artist of his generation. His experiences teaching online during the pandemic challenged and affirmed his love for quality dance education.