Jermaine Maurice Spivey

Jermain Maurice Spivey was born in Baltimore, Maryland and is a graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and The Juilliard School. He has been a company member of Ballet Gulbenkian, Cullberg Ballet, and most recently Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot. He has worked as a guest artist for Hofesh Shechter Company, Robyn Live (2016), and The Forsythe Company, and has been a cast member of American Repertory Theater’s original production The Shape She Makes conceived by Susan Misner and Jonathan Bernstein.

Spivey has assisted and/or staged Crystal Pite’s work for companies such as Cedar Lake Ballet, Carte Blanche, Hessisches StaatsBallett Wiesbaden, Netherlands Dance Theater and Paris Opera Ballet. He has instructed dance all across North America and Europe for professional companies, universities, studios, and training programs including USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, CalArts, The Juilliard School, UCLA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Baltimore School for the Arts, The Performing Arts Project, MOVE|NYC|, No)one. Art House, Nuova Officina Della Danza, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, A.I.M, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Spivey is a 2001 Princess Grace Awardee and a 1998 NFAA 1st Level Awardee. As a choreographer, he has been commissioned by Salt Contemporary Dance, Rambert 2, LA Dance Project, The Broad Museum, Christina Aguilera Live at The Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, Sacramento Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Gibney Company, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, A.I.M., and NDT 2. He has also created and performed two full evening works with partner and collaborator Spenser Theberge titled Rather This Then and Position 3.