Walter Nicks was born on July 26, 1925 (to April 3, 2007). He was an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and teacher of jazz and modern dance whose career spanned six decades. Walter Nicks was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Central High School before attending Howard University from 1942 to 1944. Nicks received some of his earliest dance training with Eleanor Frampton at the Karamu Settlement House in Cleveland. In 1945, Nicks began studying […]

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