Performing Artist
Choreographer
Educator
Helen Wicks is a San Francisco based choreographer, performing artist, aerialist, archivist, acrobat, and educator. Helen’s training began as a competitive gymnast where she was a member of the US TOPs National Team 2001-2004. She has performed with Zaccho Dance Theatre, El Circo Dia, Flyaway Productions, and is Artistic Director of Helen Wicks Works. Wicks’ choreography has been presented at Triskelion Arts, SAFEhouse Arts, Project Artaud’s Studio 124, Beauty Supply, Circus Center, SF Aerial Arts Festival, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Herbst Theater, ODC and more. Helen performed works by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and Merce Cunningham during her time earning a BA in Dance and a BA in Psychology from Bard College. She is influenced by her time with Deborah Hay and Quincy Jones. She is currently the Arts Specialist at The Nueva School where she runs an integrated visual art, dance, and theater program for students Pre-K thru 4th grade.
is a contemporary aerial dance company that brings diverse stories to multigenerational audiences with original sound, movement, and scenic design. HWW explores the history of performance in America using ancestral stories and circus-informed aerial dance as an engaging and accessible lens.
Click Tracks Trailer
Click Tracks is a new show by Helen Wicks Works that explores the conflation of news and entertainment through examining the history of film scores and newsreels. In collaboration with rigging and lighting designer Benjy Young, aerial dancers perform on a 4-story tightwire timelines in Project Artaud's SPACE 124.
Helen Wicks Works performs LOS TROMPOS: LAUNCH commissioned by Bay Area Discovery Museum, June 2022.
Pictured here Helen Wicks and Saharla Vetsch