For 20 years Marty has worked with a variety of wonderful dance companies, choreographers, composers and arrangers to create Jazz Ballets and Jazz-based Modern Dance programs by serving as musical director, composer, arranger and/or musician.
Past programs include:
- Jazz Icons for The Washington Ballet
- “Coloring Silent Space”, choreographer Jessica Lang
- “Midnight Riff”, choreographer Dwight Rhoden
- Sing, Sing, Sing for Point Park University Conservatory of Dance, music by Benny Goodman, choreographed by Bob Fosse, re-staged by Lloyd Culbreatth
- Indigo In Motion for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
- “… on the spot”, choreographer Kevin O’Day
- “More Than A Song”, choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett
- “StrayLifeLushHorn”, choreographer Dwight Rhoden
- Corcovado for Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, choreographer Robert Hill
- Annual Holiday Jazz Celebration commissioned piece, choreographer Nicole Olson
- Jazz and Fashion for MCG Jazz with Bodyography
- Live, Love and Jazz for Texture Contemporary Ballet, choreographer Alan Obuzor
- Bop Du Wop for Charlotte Ballet, choreographer Dwight Rhoden
- Central Park and Other Dreams – “I Saw A Sparrow” for William and Mary College Alumni Event, choreographer Denise Wade
