MARCELLA LEWIS
MARCELLA LEWIS hails from Los Angeles, CA, where she began her dance training at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre. She then continued her studies at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts(LACHSA). She later received her BFA from the Purchase Conservatory of Dance in 2016, where she was awarded the Adopt-A-Dancer Scholarship. She joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in fall 2016, as a dancer, soloist, and company liaison. While with A.I.M, Marcella performed works by Kyle Abraham, Trisha Brown, Doug Varone and Andrea Miller and was a rehearsal assistant for Kyle Abraham with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s “Untitled America”, New York City Ballet’s “The Runaway” and Misty Copeland’s “Ash.” Marcella was featured with A.I.M in “Dance Magazine” in August 2017 and was mentioned in the “New York Times” for A.I.M’s Joyce season in May 2018.
In 2018 Marcella became a recipient of the 2018 Princess Grace Award in Dance. As a freelance artist, Marcella has performed works by Micaela G. Taylor, Chris Emile, Marjoni Forte, JA Collective, Jodi Melnick and Genna Moroni. Marcella has choreographed and performed her movement solo installation called “Movement Transference” as a part of Institute of Contemporary Arts Los Angeles “Infinite Rehearsal.” Marcella has also presented her own choreographic work Spectacle of Ritual at Dance Theatre Lab (Purchase, New York), Odyssey Theatre(Los Angeles), Highways Performance Space(Santa Monica) and Stomping Ground L.A. She has also created work on Windward Middle School, presented at JAMS performing arts and Loyola Marymount University’s senior class, presented at Strub Theatre. In addition, Marcella is a dance educator and has taught at Juilliard, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and Loyola Marymount University. Furthermore, Ms. Lewis has dabbled in the commercial world as an assistant choreographer and dancer in Hailey Bailey music video “Angel and was the star in Theo Crooker’s music video, “TO BE WE” ft. Jill Scott. Marcella was a featured artist in SHOUTLA magazine’s “Local Stories” in May of this year. Marcella is currently a performing artist with TRIBE multidisciplinary visual performances led by artistic director and choreographer Shamel Pitts and is a freelance artist, choreographer and dance educator in Los Angeles and New York.