Audience award for best short at the 1998 Torino International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Dance With Me is half documentary and half fiction. Building upon Nicolaou's own experience and personal family footage, the film explores her mother’s illness and parallels between the lack of acceptance of homosexuality and of disease in her traditional Macedonian family. "A metaphor for the emotional numbness and an inability to engage, this invitation to dance becomes a call to communicate and to accept one another."(CFMDC)