Jodee Nimerichter

Festival Vision

"Dance is a universal language that has the ability to move people of all ages and backgrounds. The images and narrative attributed to dance works, often a window into cultures from around the world, live on in us long after seeing them on stage. And our visceral responses to the incredible range of movement styles that exist and which are accompanied by music, sets, and costumes can be equally profound. For these reasons, it is with great pleasure that I am able to share some of the greatest works and companies with An Appalachian Summer Festival audiences and to continue the festival's mission of presenting the very best theatrical experiences."

- Jodee Nimerichter

Artistic Partner, Dance Programming

Jodee Nimerichter was named Co-Director of the American Dance Festival (ADF) in May, 2007. Prior to that appointment, she had served as the organization's Associate Director since 2003. Most recently, she produced the ADF television special, Dancing in the Light, a performance program for PBS that showcases six historic works by African American choreographers.

Ms. Nimerichter was a production member of the award-winning series, 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, the first Dance in America program recorded in hi-definition. She was an associate producer for the live broadcast of the Broadway production The Man Who Came To Dinner, Fosse Millennium 2000 and the 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."

Ms. Nimerichter worked for ADF from 1992 until 1997. 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, Lithuania, 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. Ms. Nimerichter graduated from New York University (NYU) with a degree in performing arts administration.