Nicole Duffy is a rehearsal director for Ballet Hispanico, bringing decades of experience as a dancer, director, and educator to her work with the company. A former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet based in New York and in Chicago, she is also a repetiteur for the Gerald Arpino Foundation and has staged works for American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Ballet Hispánico’s Pa’lante Scholars, and Barnard College. She also served as assistant curator for the NYPL’s The Joffrey + Ballet in the US exhibition.

Raised in Puerto Rico, she trained at Ballets de San Juan and performed 19th-century classics, Balanchine ballets, and contemporary work. At the Joffrey, she danced principal roles in works by Joffrey, Arpino, Balanchine, Ashton, Cranko, de Mille, Limón, worked with Alonzo King and others in the creative process, as well as originating roles in Billboards, set to music by Prince. She has restaged Alberto Alonso’s Carmen, co-founded NYDP (a training company), and directed performances at venues including New York Live Arts, Symphony Space, and the Florence Dance Festival.

Duffy holds degrees from Columbia University and NYU, and is honored to join Ballet Hispánico’s artistic staff in support of its transformative mission.