The scope of Nic Lincoln’s choreographic career is comprised of 29 works, and he dancedprofessionally in the Twin Cities for over 20 years. His pieces have been commissioned by James Sewell Ballet, The O’Shaughnessy Theater, Hope College, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, DITA in Michigan, and the Human Rights Campaign. Most recently, he received the Cowles Center’s Generating Room: Open Proposal Initiative (2020), Minnesota State ArtsBoard Artist Initiative Grant (2015), a prestigious commission from Momentum for the Southern Theater, funded by the Walker Arts Theater, the Jerome Foundation, and the Cowles Theater (2015), and was Named One of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine (2013), and a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dance (2011). 

As a dance artist and activist he has teamed with OutFront MN, The Red Door Clinic, Transforming Families, The MN AIDS Project and The Human Rights Campaign. For his most recent work, “Escalade”, he is teaming with RECLAIM. RECLAIM works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms. Follow Nic on Instagram @popartseeker