Professor Peggy Hickey balances career with battle against cancer

Dec. 1, 2011 – Professional choreographer Peggy Hickey has worked extensively in theater, film and television productions across the country. She has choreographed musicals and operas from New York to Los Angeles, won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography, and worked with some of the biggest talent of this generation. She is currently teaching theater dance at UCLA on Mondays and Wednesdays. Hickey is battling stage two breast cancer and has become an advocate of a treatment option called Penguin Cold Caps; gel skull caps worn during chemotherapy that prevent hair loss.

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