Nichole Belden was born in Southern China and grew up in Canton, OH. She started dancing at the age of 4 and trained under the direction of Cassandra Crowley, Angelo Lemmo, and Jennifer Catazaro Hayward for 13 years at the Canton Ballet. During her high school years, she attended summer programs at Orlando Ballet, Young!, Tanzsommer Stars of Tomorrow in Germany, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Gelsey Kirkland Academy, The Washington Ballet, and American Repertory Ballet. During this time she also founded her dance photography business, NBee Photography. At the 2019 American Repertory Ballet summer intensive Nichole was invited to dance with the companies trainee program. After leaving home in 2018 to study at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet she moved to New Jersey for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons.

Repertoire:

Sleeping Beauty, Canary Fairy (Staging: Rebeca Maso) Douglas Martin and Mary Barton’s The Nutcracker Snow, Flowers, Chinese. Giselle (Staging: Ana Lourdes Novoa) Kirk Peterson’s Beauty and the Beast, Paquita (Staging: Adymara Cabrera) George Balanchine's The Nutcracker Candy Cane and Marzipan (Staging: Marcia Dale Weary) Cinderella (Staging: Alan Hineline) Breaking Free (Staging:Dylan Shifferly) Don Quixote Kitri’s Friends, Queen of Dryads (Staging: Laura Alonso) Farewell (Staging: Charles Martin) Dracula (Staging: Angelo Lemmo) The Nutcracker Snow Queen, Marzipan Lead, Flowers, Snow, Spanish, Russian, Clara, Cinderella Summer Fairy, Hungarian (Staging: Angelo Lemmo)