Tuesdays with Levi Marsman

Resource person: studio@urbanitydance.org

Location: Urbanity Dance Headquarters | 1180 Washington Street, #100, Boston, MA, 02118

Description:

Levi Philip Marsman is from Boston, MA. He began his training at the Boston Arts Academy, OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center, and Jeanette Neill Dance Studio as a scholarship recipient in their Boston Youth Moves Program. After graduating from the from the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Levi was awarded a place in the Scholarship Program at The Ailey School. He later enrolled in the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, which lead to an invitation to join Ailey II by former director, Sylvia Waters before graduation. Levi’s performance credits include the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (New York), Movements Dance Company (Jamaica), OrigiNation (Boston), Lula Washington Dance Theatre (Los Angeles), Reed Dance (Pittsburgh) and PHILADANCO! (Philadelphia).

Levi has been Artist in Residence at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Teacher In Residency for Urbanity Dance and is currently on faculty in the Ailey Extension program of the Ailey School. As a choreographer, he has created works for institutions such as Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Encore!, the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Sharron Miller Academy for the Performing Arts, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School for the Arts, Marygrove College, Renaissance High School, Boston Youth Moves, Endicott College, Georgian University's Black Movements Dance Theatre, the Joffrey School, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Ailey School, Reed Dance, the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Ballet Ecclectica at Center of Creative Arts, and OrigiNation. He has worked extensively with his mentor Christopher Huggins as co-choreographer and collaborator for dance companies and schools such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Duke Ellington School for the Arts, and the Juilliard School.

Levi’s awards include Contemporary Dance Silver Medalist of the 4th Seoul International Dance Competition, 2007 Young Professionals Awardee—Martha Hill Dance Fund, Best Performance at the 10th Annual Oakland Dance Festival in Michigan and first recipient of the 2016 Ballet Inc. Emerging Choreographer Award. He was recently asked to perform an original solo in the 2018 Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and was one of two guest choreographers to create a new work for Urbanity Dance in Boston in their "Urbanity NeXt" Project in 2017. He is excited to have choreographed for the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Eastern Michigan University and Dean College this past school year and to be Artist in Residence at the Boston Arts Academy. This summer he choreographed a new work for Move(NYC) and new works in the Ailey School’s summer intensive for both professional and junior divisions. He is excited to be returning to the Boston Arts Academy this fall and to be creating a new work for Richmond Ballet’s 2019-2020 season.
 

Required age: 17+ on the day of the activity

Tags: Adult Contemporary

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