Protecting Sparsity
Rebecca Levy
Protecting Sparsity
Choreographer
Rebecca R. Levy
Performer
James Morrow
MUSIC
Mark Snyder and Ludwig van Beethoven
Costuming
Hilary Libman
Artwork
Mico Fuentes
Rebecca R. Levy, a choreographer, performer, and educator based in Jacksonville, Florida, creates dance works that explore the complexities of the mind, feminism, bodily autonomy, and forces that bring people together or drive them apart. Her works blend humor, dance theater elements, and collaborations with visual artists, composers, costume designers, and filmmakers to create entertaining, humorous, athletic, and detailed performances.
As the artistic director of Jacksonville Dance Theatre, Rebecca co-founded the company in 2012 and has been working to grow the performing arts in Jacksonville and beyond. Her role includes creating dances, mounting performances, commissioning new and innovative artists, and cultivating dancer growth. Rebecca is an esteemed professor of dance at Florida State College at Jacksonville, where she serves as Director of Dance and teaches a diverse range of students. Her contributions to the arts community have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2020 Art Educator of the Year Award from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, a 2019 40 Under 40 award from The Jacksonville Business Journal, and Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award in 2016. She was awarded a 2019 Individual Artist Grant from Community First Bank, and a 2020 Art Ventures Individual Artist Grant from the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida for her choreographic work, Disorder, which investigated mental illness. Rebecca recently premiered a collaborative work with the Jacksonville Symphony and is working on a second piece with the group to premiere in May 2025.
Rebecca’s critically acclaimed works have been featured in festivals, films, concerts, and events both nationally and internationally. She earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with distinguished artists such as Stephan Koplowitz, Colin Connor, Stephanie Nugent, and Mitchell Rose. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. As a performer, she was a soloist with Lineage Dance Company of Los Angeles for six seasons, and co-artistic director, founder, and performer with B.E. Productions Dance Company in Los Angeles.
about the performer
James Morrow (he/him), a native of Chicago, IL, is an internationally recognized award-winning queer choreographer/ dancer. He is the founder and artistic director of james morrow/THE MOVEMENT. Morrow’s movement foundation originated in street dance, specifically Breakin', House, and Rave techniques. It wasn’t until college that Morrow was introduced to Concert Dance. His movement has become multimodal, fusing modern, contemporary, and street dance elements while using Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, and Queer Theory as lenses to interrogate process and creation .
about the artist
Mico Fuentes is a visual artist from Jacksonville, FL. He has a background in printmaking and utilizes the principles of printmaking towards the creation of an object. His work employs semiotics and defeated materials to communicate the concepts of value, consumerism, and the witness of the natural world. Mico is the gallery director and owner of Exhibit A, a gallery dedicated to showing his contemporary works of art. He holds his MFA from Jacksonville University in Visual Art, and serves as Gallery Coordinator for Florida State College at Jacksonville.