Nicholas Hittle is currently a freelance dancing artist in Chicago, IL. He recently received a BA in Dance and a BS in Liberal Arts and Sciences for Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before studying with the Dance at Illinois, he has studied under Deanna Doty and other teachers at the Champaign Ballet Academy (CBA) along with the San Francisco Ballet School, mainly focusing on the Vaganova style Ballet technique. While at the University of Illinois, Hittle has studied in multiple disciplines under the instruction of Dance faculty including Jan Erkert, Abby Zbikowski, Dr. Cynthia Oliver, and Linda Lehovic, Dr. Kemal Nance, Endalyn Taylor and Tere O’Connor. In addition to performing Hittle also works as a choreographer. Some choreographic credits include his self-choreographed solo, vinyl historia, as part of Dance at Illinois’ Studio Dance 2 program, the Choreographer for a student-written musical Amongst the Clouds, the Assistant Choreographer of Illini Student Musicals’ production of Carrie, and the Choreographer of their production of A Chorus Line.