(American Dance Festival), University of Maryland, Bard College, Duke University (1991), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1992–94). 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. References Vendetta Mathea (Walter Nicks Dance Company dancer) External links Walter Nicks papers, 1899-2004 Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. 1925 births 2007 deaths American male dancers American choreographers Howard University alumni 20th-century American dancers Academic staff of the Folkwang University of the Arts