Marvel
Gentry Davis, 2003 Post-Corbett Award Finalist, is President of the
Board of Directors for ballet tech cincinnati and Producing
Artistic Director for the Season Series and Gala of International
Ballet Stars. She has been involved with ballet
tech cincinnati since the very beginning as an original board
member. Since her tenure as President of the Board, she has led ballet
tech cincinnati to new levels of revenue attainment, community
involvement and impact, and artistic excellence. In 2008 she was recognized
as a “Leading Woman” in Arts/Entertainment by Leading Women and received
a Performing Arts Award for her contributions to the Greater Cincinnati
Community in Arts and Culture by the Cincinnati Chapter of The Links,
Incorporated.
Marvel has a life
long love of dance. She has been performing since she was four, and
has studied many dance idioms, including ballet, jazz, modern, tap,
African, Balinese, belly dancing, Praise dancing, and her new dance
interest, ballroom dancing. Her love of dance and passion for making
dance assessable to everyone guides her artistic vision. She has produced
six highly successful seasons at the Aronoff Center, including the internationally
acclaimed Gala of International Ballet Stars
and several audience pleasing original productions such as The
Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest, Shall
We Dance?, Happily Ever After, Made in America
and The Jazzy Sleeping Beauty.
A graduate of Northwestern
University, Marvel is an expert in high tech solution sales and management,
and has been successful in various roles at a number of well respected
companies in Chicago and Cincinnati. A member of the Cincinnati Arts
Association Building Diverse Audiences Committee, Board of Trustees
for OhioDance and a National Arts Marketing Project Certified Arts Marketer,
she is listed in Who’s Who in Dance, Who’s Who of Business and Professional
Women, and Who’s Who International.
