NAMED ONE OF "NINE DANCEMAKERS MAKING HISTORY"....2001 Cover Story Dance Spirit
Magazine
Geoffrey Doig-Marx is the Artistic Director and Founder of "The Mantis Project" Dance Company, and Creator/Artistic Director of "The Elan Awards" (an annual showcase that honors a choreographer who has changed the face of dance and showcases the work of fourteen additional choreographers).
Mr. Doig-Marx received a Certificate of Excellence in Cultural Achievement from C. Virginia Fields Manhattan Borough President office of The Mayor of New York City for his work with The Elan Awards. In 2005 along with then Co-Producer Dance Spirit Magazine, The Elan awards honored Susan Stroman with special guests The Original Cast of Contact. Past honorees of the award include Graciella Daniele, Jerry Mitchell, Ann Reinking, Rob Marshall and Lar Lubovitch.
Currently, Mr.Doig-Marx is working with Tracie Stanfield and The Soho Agency on The 2009 Elan Awards. In the summer of 2008, along with Tricia Arenson, Geoffrey will be launching a New Annual Summer Dance Festival that will premier in Provincetown Mass. Geoffrey is also working with LA Composer Peter Michael Von de Nahmer on a project set for Carnegie Hall and a ballet based on story ideas from HP Lovecraft set to tour.
This summer 2007 , Geoffrey was a Creative Associate on Broadway Bares 17 at Roseland in NYC. (Assistant Choreographer to Director Denis Jones for Broadway Bares 2006 and Creator/Executive Producer Jerry Mitchell). In January 2007 he created a piece for The American Theatre Dance Workshop and Geoffrey's piece entitled "Need" (based on Punk Rocker Sid Vicious girlfriend Nancy Spungen) was selected by Michael Blevins to be presented at The Group Theatre Too festival in NYC (TBA). In December 2006 his piece "3 More 3's" was performed at The Theresa Lang Theatre in NYC and on December 16th 2006 his farcical look at the Nutcracker "One Tough Nut" premiered in New Jersey at The Villa Victoria Theatre.
Mr. Doig-Marx is currently on faculty at ARB's Princeton Ballet, The Lawrenceville School, Maple Avenue Dance, Performing Arts Center of Conneticuit and The Pulse in Westchester. He is a member of "Actor's Equity" and an Associate Member of "The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers". Previously on Staff at Broadway Dance Center, Broadway Dance Center Childrens Program, STEPS, Ballet Arts, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, and *PDT (*Princeton Dance and Theatre- Susan Jaffe's School).
Mr. Doig-Marx is listed in "What's Hot New York" and has choreographed for various theaters, throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. As a performer Mr. Doig-Marx appeared in the Equity National Tours and Regional Theater Productions of West Side Story, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Dames at Sea, Cabaret, La Cage aux Folles, Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar and many others. Geoffrey received "The Harkness Choreographers Grant" from Suny Purchase and a Choreographers grant from New Dance Group in New York City. He is a big animal rights supporter and a member of the ASPCA. Mr. Doig-Marx wrote a tell all book about his days as a Disney dancer entitled "Not Only Magic Floats".
