Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC dance community for four decades. She has been making dances since the late eighties, collaborating with various performers, artists, and sound designers. Locally, her work has been presented at Arts on Site, Danspace Project, DTW, Judson Church, The Kitchen, P.S 122, Roulette, and Sundays on Broadway, among others. For six years she was a member of the Trisha Brown Company and staged several of Brown’s dances here and abroad, including in her home town, Budapest. She has performed with many other choreographers and has created pieces at several universities, most recently at Yale and at The New School. In addition to teaching internationally, in the NYC area, she teaches mostly at Movement Research, for the Trisha Brown Company, and for 15 years at Hunter College. She was a two-time Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a two-time Bessie recipient, a DiP grantee at Gibney Dance Center, a grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
