She is the founder of the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre of Colorado, a repertory company known for its highly theatrical and imagistic performances that explore themes through the integration of sculpture, props, and film.
[6] In 1968 she performed in Duke Ellington’s Second Sacred Concert at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco with the Xoregos Dance Company.
Spanier also worked internationally as a freelance choreographer and director with theatre and dance companies in the United States and Europe.
[10] During this period she founded her own school, The Dancecentre and directed the Movement Program at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' National Theatre Conservatory.
In Splendid Unison, 2017 Post Op, 2014 Contemplations at 70, 2012 Of Memory, 2011 Le Jardinier de la Gafferie, 2010 Flesh Sites, 2007 Envolée, 2004 Echos, Esprits et Traces dans l’ancien Hospice de Hautefort, 2002 Flesh Chronicles, 1988 Fatal Attraction, 1985 Tribes, 1985 Migration: Heat of Angels, 1984 Spheres of Influence, 1984 Eternal Rendezvous: A Trilogy, 1983 Maiden Forms, 1982 Pageant in Passage, 1981 Triptych, 1981 High Country: A Celebration, 1980 Side by Side and Inside, 1979 Arena: A Documentary in Five Rounds, 1978 Canti d’Innocenza, 1977 Show on Earth, 1976 Abundance, 1976 Peak to Peak, 1975 A Peep Show: For Women Only, 1974 Time Wounds All Heals, 1973 Glass Camellias, 1972 Mauvais Jeu, 1971 Parched Plain, 1969 Larisa Oancea, Nancy Spanier: The Arc of a Dancing Life, Performance Inventions, 2021.