Career
She made her debut on Broadway as Kalimba in Hot Feet. While still in her final year of the Ailey/Fordham Bachelor of Fine Arts Program in Dance, she was cast as Kalinda by Hot Feet"s conceiver/director/choreographer Maurice Hines. Hot Feet follows the classic storyline of The Red Shoes with a "70s funk facelift, and Kalimba is the ambitious girl at the center of it who can"t stop dancing (literally).
She was named of the top "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine in 2007.
Broadway: Hot Feet (Kalimba). Regional: Alan Johnson’s West Side Story (Anita), Bayou Legend (Sara), Pearl (Pearl), Soul Possessed, Dreams, Brothers of the Knight and The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker.
Tours: Joey McKneely’s European tour of West Side Story (Anita), Alvin Ailey II and Opera Ebony’s Harriet. Film: 500 Days of Summer, Great Observer and Bolden (all in post-production).
Television: Glee, Eli Stone, Everybody Hates Chris, Songs of Soul and Inspiration, That’s So Raven, Cool Women and Polly.
Ms Nixon has also been a feature performer on four of the Annual Academy Awards. August Wilson"s Joe Turner"s Come and Gone, Molly Cunningham. Mark Taper Forum, Los Los Angeles
