Recent Work
- Choreographed “Trance Atlantic” for Philadanco (2000)
- Taught at Howard University
- Taught and performed at the Katherine Dunham celebration at Jacobs Pillow in 2002
- Served on the faculty of the New York City Board of Education’s Dance Institute (Summer, 2002)
Nicks was on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Blacks in Dance, and on the Advisory Board of the Black Arts Network Diaspora. He was a recipient of The Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching from the American Dance Festival.
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