 While still in her final year of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance, in 2006 Nixon was cast as Kalinda in the Broadway production of "Hot Feet", 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.Her regional credits including Alan Johnson’s "West Side Story" (Anita), "Bayou Legend" (Sara), "Pearl" (Pearl), "Soul Possessed", "Dreams", "Brothers of the Knight" and "The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker".