Nancy Spanier was born and raised in New York City and is an internationally recognized, multi-disciplinary artist whose work is choreographed in the broadest sense of the word. She coined the phrase Performance Inventions to encompass the scope of her work which integrates movement, music, voice, sound, text, film and the visual arts.

In her youth she danced professionally with many of the pioneers of modern dance. After her rich professional life as a dancer she was a Professor of Dance at the University of Colorado for 34 years. During those years her dance company, the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre of Colorado, performed nationally and internationally.

Since 2000, videodance has been a major thrust of her work and her videos have been screened at Colorado’s Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, the International Screendance Festival at North Carolina’s American Dance Festival, and on television and at film festivals in Spain, Mexico, Germany and France.

In 2007 she relocated to southwestern France where she continues her artistic life focusing on filmmaking.