Jodee Nimerichter is the Co-Director of the American Dance Festival (ADF). She is responsible for the administration/management of the ADF, assists with the long-range planning of the Festival, co-curates the performance seasons, and oversees special projects. Ms. Nimerichter currently serves as Artistic Advisor/Dance for the Appalachian Summer Festival, on the Advisory Board of Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA), and is a Hubsite for the National Dance Project. In addition, she is active in the dance field serving as a guest panelist. Most recently she joined Durham Central Park’s Board of Directors.
Prior to returning to ADF, Ms. Nimerichter was a production member of Great Performances: Dance in America at Thirteen/WNET New York. There she co-produced the award-winning performance documentary, Born to Be Wild: The Leading Men of American Ballet Theatre (2002) featuring Jose Manuel Carreño (Cuba), Angel Corella (Spain), Vladimir Malakhov (Russia) and Ethan Stiefel (USA), and a new work created specially for them by Mark Morris. Ms. Nimerichter also co-produced television recordings of the Broadway revival of The Women, starring Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Johnston, and the Broadway musical Fosse. She was an associate producer for the live broadcast of the Broadway production The Man Who Came To Dinner and Fosse Millennium 2000.
Ms. Nimerichter worked for ADF from 1992 until 1999. During this time, she managed international dance festivals in Korea and Russia and dance exchange programs in over 20 countries ranging from South Africa to Poland, Argentina and the Philippines. She also organized the first U.S. tour of The Guangdong Modern Dance Company from Guangzhou, China and was responsible for organizing the reconstruction of seven classic dance works on repertory dance companies across the United States. In 1997, she joined the production team for ADF’s Emmy Award-winning series, Free to Dance, a three-hour documentary on the African American presence in modern dance for which she was also nominated for an Emmy Award in “Research.”
Most recently she produced ADF’s Dancing in the Light (2007), a program showcasing six historic works by African American choreographers, for PBS.
Ms. Nimerichter graduated from New York University (NYU) with a degree in performing arts administration. During college she held internships at ADF, Jacob's Pillow Dance, and Changing Times Tap Dancing Company. In addition, she worked on the dance component of NYU’s first Gallatin Arts Festival. She has served on the board of directors for Mark Dendy Dance & Theatre and worked on special projects for numerous dance companies.
