Walter Nicks (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cook, Ray (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6pps, worn sheets stapled with the design and floor pattern sketched, rare, presented at the Hotel Paramount in July 1955. Good only. c1955.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stapled, 6pps, two horizontal folded creases slightly soiled mimeograph copy of choreographed dance routine, ready for performance w/drawing of accompanying costume, dated 23-29 July 1955. Walter Nicks (1924-2007) was an African American dancer, choreographer, and educator who trained under several modern dance instructors, including José Limón and Marie Bryant, though he trained most intensively under Katherine Dunham, and would later become a certified master teacher of the Katherine Dunham Technique. Nicks traveled to Mexico in 1953 and started his first company, El Ballet Negro de Walter Nicks. He also studied Voodou dance in Haiti and cultural dances in Brazil. During this time he also danced and choreographed in several pieces in the United States, including the Broadway shows My Darling Aida, House of Flowers, and Jamaica. From 1959 to 1963, Nicks was the choreographer for Harry Belafonte. In 1972 he founded the Walter Nicks Dance Theatre Workshop. Nicks and his Workshop dancers focused on several community outreach programs, including the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS), and the Artists-in-Schools program, a program funded through the National Endowment for the Arts and state arts agencies. Through these programs, Nicks and his company held residencies at several elementary and secondary public schools across the United States through the 1980s. The bulk of Nicks' career was spent teaching courses and workshops at colleges, universities, and for other dance companies throughout Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States. Through the 1990s Nicks held faculty artist residencies at Connecticut College, The University of Maryland, The University of Nevada, and Duke University. He died in 2007 in Brooklyn, New York. Rare (is this his sketch?).