Nell Mancini is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, educator, and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined Nozama Dance Collective in 2021, and over the last three seasons she has performed in numerous works created by members of the company, and created some of her own as well. In 2023 she interned at Bates Dance Festival as a dance photographer, where she had the opportunity to work with AIM by Kyle Abraham, The Limon Dance Company, The Rockettes and more, and in 2024 became the in-house photographer for Nozama. In 2021 she received her BFA in dance from The University of Massachusetts Amherst in just three years and while there she had the opportunity to perform in the masterwork Boats Leaving by Doug Varone, where she was a part of the first ever non-company cast to perform the work in its entirety. She was born and raised in Massachusetts, and she attended the Acton School of Ballet for her formative dance training. She has also trained with Kairos Dance Theater, where she was an apprentice, Urbanity Dance, where she was a Junior Apprentice and a member of the Underground Company, David Dorfman Dance, Bates Dance Festival, and The Ailey School.

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