New Jersey Stage Issue 52 | Page 60

ARTIST PROFILE: MARK ROXEY “Dance to me is life itself. I owe my boxing gym. He is also the founder me again and again and again dur- Company, associate director of The life to dance, because dance found ing my youth.” Mark Roxey’s been thrown in a gar- and director of the Roxey Ballet Mill Ballet School, and has had a distinguished career with numerous American dance companies, includ- bage can, part of street dance gangs ing The Joffrey Ballet. You have to (who knew those were really real?!) hear Mark’s story in this Jersey Arts and spends a whole lot of time in the artist profile. Content provided by Discover Jersey Arts, a project of the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Originally published at: www.jerseyarts.com/blog Watch a video segment on Mark Roxey by Jesse & Dave NJ STAGE - ISSUE 52 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 60