BALLET MASTER
JONATHON LEVY
Mr. Levy graduated from Barboursville High School to pursue
a successful career in the Performing Arts. He has
performed and taught dance for over twenty years. He danced
with five major American professional ballet companies, and
over thirty professional performing arts organizations
around the world, performing with such performing arts
stars as: Luciano Pavarotti, pianist Morton Gould, Fernando
Bujones, Mariana Tcherkassy, Yuri Simenov, and others... He
was a featured soloist in the IBM-sponsored PBS
documentary
“The Dance with Edward Villella,”
and appeared with Lynn Swan of the NFL on the PBS
children's program
“Mr Roger's Neighborhood.”
He served as a professor of dance at Northern Arizona
University's College of Fine & Performing Arts, and has
been a Guest Instructor at many colleges, universities, and
professional schools, such as Oklahoma University's Dance
Department, the School of Ballet Arizona, Dallas
Conservatory
of Dance, and others... He was a Guest Ballet Master for
the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company and Jazz Dance Center
in Chicago, and served as the Ballet Master in Charge of
Artistic Direction for The School of Performing Arts in
Naperville/Chicago. He founded and directed The Centre for
Human Arts Instruction in Chicago's western suburb of
Aurora, and was the Ballet Master for Bat Dor Dance Company
- The National Contemporary Ballet of Israel in Tel Aviv.
Mr. Levy has had students accepted to University dance
degree programs in Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, and Oklahoma
as well asto professional programs, companies and schools,
such as: The National Ballet School of Canada, Canada's
Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Columbus Metropolitan Ballet, North
Carolina School of the Arts, Ballet Austin, Orlando Ballet,
the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, including a current
soloist for the Saint Louis Ballet, and others...
“Creating the performing artists of tomorrow –
today!”
“If it were only entertainment, we wouldn't call it
– ART!”
For
more information, call (304)52-DANCE
Located in the Gallaher Village area,
on the corner of Washington Blvd. and Linden Circle