Will Ervin

Will Ervin is an East Coast native.

He earned his BFA in dance from Montclair State. And MFA in dance from the University of Illinois. He has also trained with Joffrey Ballet, EMIA Rennie Harris, Jacobs Pillow, and Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet.

Since graduating, Ervin has performed at the Alexander Kasser Theatre, the Joyce Theatre, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Hearts of Men ensemble. As Artistic Director of his company Erv Works Dance, he has presented choreography at the University of Illinois set on 1st year Dance Majors, the Dumbo Dance Festival, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Recent works were choreographing for Kemar Jewels Dance Film project headlining 2021’s Global Black Pride event where Kemar’s work was presented after the keynote speaker President Joe Biden, Battery Dance Festival, Maria Torres’s Sol El Bario, and the Joyce Theatre in partnership with Future Dance Festival, 92st Y, and The Martha Graham Dance Company.

Other accomplishments include performing in Cabaret on Broadway, apprenticing with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and interning with American Ballet Theatre’s Major Gifts Department. He was recently named Dance Lab Ny by Josh Prince’s fall cycle choreographer, Dance on the Lawn's emerging commissioned choreographer, and has set work on Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, Accent Dance NY & Brooklyn Ballet.