Marvin Louis Casey II () (born 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States), is an Israeli-American hip hop dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor.

Biography

Marvin Casey was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1981 and was involved primarily with baseball, football, and tae kwon do until he started dancing at the age of 17. He became further immersed in it at age 22 while working for Utopia entertainment company, dancing hip-hop on the dance floor almost every night. He converted to Judaism in 2003, and immigrated to Israel in 2006. He was married in Jerusalem on October 31, 2010. and lives with his wife, Oshrat, and 3 children in Ashkelon, Israel.

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General references

Eli Levine, "Marvin’s Dance", Aish.com, March 16, 2014

Danna Harman, The Jewish African-American Who Brought Flash Mob Dancing to Israel, Haaretz, September 23, 2013 Yael Brygel, Cityfront: Dancing to a Different Tune, The Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2009 Leah Hakimian How Marvin met Oshrat, The New York Jewish Week, December 5, 2010

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Living people

1981 births

Israeli male dancers

Israeli dancers

American dancers

Israeli choreographers

American choreographers

Male actors from St. Louis

Converts to Judaism

African-American Jews

African-American choreographers

21st-century African-American people

20th-century African-American people

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