Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC Dance Community for over four decades. She has been making dances since the late eighties, collaborating with many performers, artists, and sound designers. For six years, she was a member of the Trisha Brown Company and has staged several of Brown’s choreographies. She has also worked with many other choreographers and created student pieces at several universities, most recently at Yale and the New School. In the NYC area, she teaches mostly at Movement Research, for the Trisha Brown Company, and for 15 years at Hunter College. She has taught internationally including in her hometown, Budapest. She was a two-time Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a DiP grantee at Gibney Dance Center, a two-time Bessie recipient, a grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Vicky sits on a big yellow ball in her living room. My grayish brown hair is in a messy pony tail on top of my head. I am wearing a dark blue shirt with pale dots and green sweat pants. In the background, plants, books, a window and a red chair. Photo by Alan Mandell.
ID: Vicky sits on a big yellow ball in her living room. My grayish brown hair is in a messy pony tail on top of my head. I am wearing a dark blue shirt with pale dots and green sweat pants. In the background, plants, books, a window and a red chair. Photo by Alan Mandell.

Past classes and workshops