Nico Archambault

Nicolas "Nico" Archambault (born 18 October 1984) is a Canadian dancer and choreographer, who in 2008 won the first season of So You Think You Can Dance Canada.

While in Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry Secondary School in Saint-Léonard, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, he registered for dance classes and was taunted, intimidated and ostracized by the male students for being "gay".

While a student, he was offered a position as a freestyle dancer at the popular Quebec game show La Fureur where he worked for 5 years.

During this period, he also took part in a number of musical shows including Elvis Story, in Night Fever, in Joe Dassin – La grande fête musicale[1] and in a lyrical version of the rock opera Starmania.

[3] Archambault works in the choreography company Street Parade, and is the artistic director in the electro-pop group The Pinup Saints, with his wife Wynn Holmes as lead vocalist.

In 2010, he choreographed the musical comedy Le Blues d'la Métropole directed by Serge Denoncourt, honoring the band Beau Dommage Théâtre Saint-Denis in Montreal.

Nico Archambault has landed with the lead role of Marc Painchaud in the 2011 Canadian film On the Beat (Sur le rythme), directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud.