The Washington Post claims, "LEVYdance is a company to watch, now and in the future." Dance Magazine named Artistic Director Benjamin Levy one of the "Top 25 to Watch," and described his choreography as "a judicious balance of athletic and lyrical, brainy and sexy."

LEVYdance was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, where it manages it home studio. The company has performed at Dance Mission Theater (San Francisco), Dance Place (Washington, D.C.), Joyce SoHo (New York), ODC Theater (San Francisco), where the company is in residence, Velocity Dance Theater (Seattle), The Performance Garage (Philadelphia), JCCSF (San Francisco), The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), the Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), San Diego State University, The Lobero Theater (Santa Barbara) and internationally at VDU University in Lithuania.

The company has received a Choreographic Fellowship at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and been chosen to represent San Francisco in the California Regional Dance Touring Project and the SCUBA Touring Network?programs aimed to promote "the breath of choreographic invention across the country" (Camille LeFevre, Star Tribune)

LEVYdance has been awarded funding from the Dance: Creation to Performance program, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, and administered by Dance/USA, The Creative Work Fund, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the David and Laura Merage Foundation, the Joyce Theater's Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work, Target Stores, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, USArtists International, and Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA, for collaborations with acclaimed artists such as French couture designer Colleen Quen, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, industrial designer Rick Lee, composer Keeril Makan, and Kronos Quartet.

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