Nicole B. Hockenberry, an Easton, PA native, has been dancing professionally for over thirteen years. Nicole became a performing member of A&G Dance in 1991, under the Artistic Direction of Germaine Salsberg and Manhattan Tap in 1992, under Heather Cornell. While working with the company and performing extensively, Nicole became overwhelmed at the musicality of her art. Nicole has enlightened audiences nationwide with her unique style of rhythmic and improvisational tap dance. Blending the musicality of tap as a percussion instrument with other traditional and world beat instruments, while keeping that jazz influenced improvisation, is what she strives for as a soloist.

As the founder and Artistic Director of T.A.P.-Teach All People and the founder of T.A.P. Celebrates National Tap Dance Day, (Leigh Valley, PA) Nicole self-promoted her company, consisting of professional tap educators and performers since 1995, and has successfully become a part of the professional tap community. While directing T.A.P., within a solo career, Nicole has been asked to teach and perform with many prominent companies nationwide.

As a tap educator, Nicole is dedicated to teaching her students the importance of musicality and inner rhythm. Through technique, improvisation and performance, she makes sure that her students know that they are musicians first and foremost. Nicole’s choreography has been commissioned by tap companies throughout the country, including RPM (San Antonio, TX) and In Motion (Chester, NJ). Nicole joined Germaine Ingram, tap partner to La Vaughn Robinson, for performances in the Philadelphia DanceBoom! Series in 2005, held at the famous WILMA Theatre in Philadelphia, PA.

Nicole was a founding member, performer and the production manager of the women's tap trio, The Shelley Oliver Tap Dancers, under the Artistic Direction of Shelley Oliver and the Musical Direction of David Leonhardt from 1997 – 2002.

Nicole is a featured speaker and performer on behalf of Dr. James ‘Buster’ Brown, in the Doctors of Dance Documentary filmed in February 2002, at Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma.

Currently, Nicole spends the school year as an adjunct professor of Dance at Cedar Crest College (Allentown, PA) and a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), teaching tap courses involving Musical Structure, Tap History and Improvisation as well as directing both the Cedar Crest and UArts Tap Ensembles. During the summer, Nicole travels the tap festival circuit teaching Master Classes, Intensive Tap Courses & Performing as a solo artist.

Nicole, husband Mark and children Julia and Alan, make their home in Eastern Pennsylvania.