Victoria Niblett graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Alabama with a degree in dance and public relations. During college, Victoria performed with Alabama’s official dance team, the Crimson Cabaret and treasures her memories dancing in Bryant-Denny Stadium and Coleman Coliseum. The team also competed at Walt Disney World for the Universal Dance Association and ESPN Collegiate Dance Team National Finals where they were award-winning finalists in the Pom category.

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Also while in college, she performed in the pre-professional company Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre as a demi-soloist in the original contemporary ballet, The Trainer, by Qianping Guo from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and a modern work by Natosha Washington from The Penguin Lady Dance Collective. During this time, she also choreographed, performed, and designed lighting and costumes for Dance Alabama! the state’s premiere student produced dance concert. 

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In her final semester, Victoria presented award-winning research in Choreography and United States Copyright Law for the Research and Creative Activity Conference and worked with Andrew Raffo Dewar and Sarah M. Barry in the Sonic Frontier Series of the Works in Progress Concert Collaboration. After graduating top of her class, she was able to travel to New York to study under Shannon Gillen and her visionary contemporary dance theater company, VIM VIGOR. Victoria also recently performed in “Ritual to the Sun” from Martha Graham's 1981 ballet, Acts of Light with the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and was recently accepted into the Professional Training Program as a full-time student where she will study the Graham TechniqueTM as well as pedagogy, choreography, and composition under Peggy Lyman-Hayes, Susan Kikuchi, Lone Larsen and more.

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Victoria worked on staff and traveled across the country with Celebrity Dance Competitions for five years and participated in Nationals at Sea on Carnival Cruise Lines. She was asked to travel to Mexico as a master teacher in ballet, modern, and contemporary to teach convention classes and judge competition with the first ever Danzética competition. She was honored to receive a commission from AROVA Contemporary Ballet to set a full length work on their professional company which will premiere in April of 2019.

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She just got back from Montrouis, Haiti with Project Grace where she was privileged enough to share her love for dance and her knowledge in dance education with two orphanages and a developing community. Through donated costumes and shoes from the Traveling Tutus organization, she was able to set three dance works on her Haitian students and arrange a community performance where many of them experienced the joy of applause and the beauty of costumes and glitter for the very first time.

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Victoria was the original “Encore baby” and as the youngest original company member, she got to see how Encore grew in her fifteen years there. While at Encore, she won numerous regional and national titles including Junior and Senior Dancer of the Year. She was honored to receive many class scholarships, specifically the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet scholarship and Outstanding Dancer distinction from New York City Dance Alliance, and Breakout Artist title winner at Nuvo. She won the Young Choreographer’s Award from Dance America and the Celebrity CREATE Choreography Competition for a collaboration work with her brother Kendall Niblett.

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At Encore, she made some of her dearest friends and through Encore, made some of her most beneficial career connections. It is difficult to choose her favorite memory with Encore Performance Company, but she treasures dearly the performance of The Greatest Generation at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans in front of WWII veterans and real-life Rosie the Riveters. She got her foundational training right here at Encore Performance Company, and understands that the commitment to excellence learned in this studio prepared her for past, current, and future successes in and out of the dance field.