April 29, 2021
Posted by Victoria L. Awkward

Levi Marsman - will be joining us to teach a two part series on Fridays at 10 AM at Hibernian Hall starting May 14! Join this advanced contemporary class to train, learn and grow with other Boston/Greater Boston community members. This is a class you do not want to miss!
Fridays May 14 & May 21
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Hibernian Hall - Roxbury, MA
Register for Class Here!
LEVI PHILIP MARSMAN was born and raised in Boston, MA and is Artist in Residence at the Boston Arts Academy. 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 is currently on faculty at Urbanity Dance and in the Ailey Extension program at the Ailey School and has been Artist in Residence at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Teacher In Residency for Urbanity Dance. 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, Dean College, Endicott College, Eastern Michigan University, Wheaton College, Georgetown 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, OrigiNation and MOVE(NYC). 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 was commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a new work entitled ‘Colorful’ in conjunction with the opening of their exhibit “Boston’s Apollo” and is excited to create for Richmond Ballet this season.
CLASS DESCRIPTION In this contemporary fusion class Levi goes through a range of classical dance styles and new age movement. Be prepared for a vigorous warm up and technically challenging combo.

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