Gene Murray

Gene Murray began his early dance training with Adolphe Robiecheau in Boston, Massachusetts in 1956. He then trained in New York with Ballet Russ de Monte Carlo with Leon Danielian and Perry Brunson. His other teachers include Igor Youskevitch and Tatiana Babushkina.

In addition to ballet, Murray has extensive training in tap, jazz, modern, and ballroom. He studied jazz under Peter Gennaro, and tap with Stanley Brown, June Taylor, Bill Gary, and George Foster. He has performed in multiple productions including the Arthur Murray Dance Party on the Jackie Gleason Show, the national company productions of Guys & Dolls and Brigadoon and in Brigadoon he performed in the Ballet Sequence dancing with Ballet Russe premier dancer Leon Danielian in the traditional Sword Dance Sequence, and also performances at North Shore Music Theater and South Shore Music Tent. He also starred in a night club act, Murray and Ayers, in some of the top supper clubs in the United States with many notable television and Broadway stars of the 1960's and 1970’s.

Murray has taught at multiple teaching institutions, including Tatiana Babushkina Ballet School in Boston, Dancer’s Studio (Kenmore Square, Boston), and Salem State College. He operated his own studio, The Gene Murray School, in Salem, Massachusetts for 35 years before joining Boston Ballet School.

Murray has been a part of many dance teacher organizations, in which he conducted Master Classes for Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston, Maine Dance Teachers Association, National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts in New York City, and Connecticut Dance Teachers Associations.

In 2012, Murray received a Lifetime Achievement Award for services to the arts from Salem State University.