Nicholas Leichter

Nicholas Leichter has taught throughout the United States and at festivals in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Eastern and Western Europe.He has served on the faculties at Tisch Dance, Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, Wayne State, University of Iowa, Rutgers University and Tisch Experimental Theatre Wing. For his unique approach to choreography Leichter has received support from The Joyce Theater Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NPN, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation,The Greenwall Foundation, The 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, NYSCA, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) through the NationalDance Project (NDP), the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Leichter is currently Program Manager at Arts Connection.