Nathan Trice, artistic director, ordain interfaith minister, community organizer and U.S. Naval Veteran is the artistic director and founder of nathan trice / RITUALS: dance, theater, Music, created in 1998. His mission is to develop and presents artistic / educational programs and performances that reflect the importance of empathy, compassion and understanding for one another, in the pursuit of global humanism. His company has been in-residence at the Billie Holiday Theater, a center for arts and culture in Brooklyn N.Y., since 2005.
Company annual projects include: The Recognizing Women Project, a research and performance initiative that develops and presents residencies and performances about women’s experiences & stories across cultures, generations and geographies. (A.I.D.: The Future Of…) An Inquiry Dynamic: The Future Of…, a holistic interdisciplinary mentorship program for Gen Z & Millennials, focusing on Spirituality & Humanity, Morality & Technology, Racism & Environmentalism and Organizing. Strange Love: EPISODES, is a serialized performance that explores and illustrates the anatomy and beauty of community stories and experiences of courtship, intimacy and love.
In 2025 Trice was given directorship of the Billie Holiday Theaters ChoreoQuest program, a choreographer-in-residency program that provides choreographers of African descent in the five boroughs of NYC the resources to incubate and develop innovative new artistic works at their new rehearsal and presenting spaces in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2020 Trice was ordained into Inter-faith/Inter-spiritual ministry through One Spirit Alliance. He currently serves as the organizer for the NY Anti-Racism Coalition for Faith Ethical and Spiritual Communities to help build and develop anti- racists leadership and organizing within each of the coalition’s participating spiritual, ethical and religious congregations, community’s and institutions.
Trice is the co-founder of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity), created in 2014, a multi-racial, inter-generational group of artists and cultural workers committed to organizing for racial equity in the influential realms of arts and culture: arts & education, funding, media, curation, casting and arts space.
As an educator, Trice has taught his own technique, brand of movement, given master classes, workshops and lecture demonstrations for the past 28 years. He has choreographed for over 40 universities, colleges and performing arts high schools, and served on faculty at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus dance department for over 10 years.
In 2007 Nathan was the inaugurating artist for the guest artist residency program of dance at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts for four consecutive years.
Trice has been commissioned by actors, singers, the Alvin Ailey organization, Bermuda Dance Company, Dallas Black Dance Theater and the Hearman LaVern Theater Group. He’s the recipient of the Restoration Plaza’s Youth Arts Academy Recognition Award and the Maggie Allesee Copperfoot Award at Wayne State University.
Fun fact: Nathan Trice is originally from Detroit, MI, Trice began his training in 1988 under the direction of Aulani Chun in San Diego, CA at Mesa College. While engaged in dance training, Trice simultaneously completed his remaining two years of a four-and-a-half year contract with the U.S. Navy. Upon completion of his Naval contract, he was accepted into the Alvin Ailey Dance Center in 1991.
Since 1998 Trice and his company have toured throughout the United States, Bermuda, Aruba, Japan, Argentina and Hong Kong performing in some of the most prestigious festivals, including Summer Stage, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Festival in the world, including City Center Fall For Dance, Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors, E-Moves Gatehouse Dance Festival, Symphony Space, Judson Memorial Church’s DADD series, Danspace Project, (IABD) International Association of Blacks in Dance, Hiroshima City Museum, Dance New Amsterdam’s (DNA) In The Company of Men, Aruba Festival and The Hong Kong Hip Hop Festival.
Critics have identified Trice’s work as innovative, thought-provoking, and otherworldly performances that reflect and touch the core of the human experience.