Joe Levasseur is a New Hampshire native and a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts with a degree in Lighting Design. His primary focus is lighting and production work for contemporary dance and performance. As a lighting designer, Levasseur's work has been seen all over the United States, Europe, and South America. Levasseur received a 2008 New York Dance and Performance 'Bessie' Award “for lighting a vast range of work this season and providing deeply integral visual environments, textures, moods, and effects, in projects of every scale, at nearly every venue in the city.”
As the touring lighting director for John Jasperse Company, he co-designed just two dancers, CALIFORNIA, Prone, and Becky, Jodi, and John, and Misuse liable to prosecution. In New York City, Levasseur has collaborated with choreographers Maria Hassabi, Jennifer Monson, RoseAnne Spradlin, Michael Portnoy, Sarah Michelson and Pavel Zustiak among others. Levasseur has also designed a number of plays including Jenna is Nuts, In a Strange Room, and Françoise Changes Her Mind at the Brick Theater, as well as the off-Broadway play Edge.
Recent projects include designs for Jodi Melnick, Palissimo, Big Dance Theater, Beth Gill, Megan Sprenger, and Christopher Williams’ The Golden Legend. Prior to June 2008: collaboration with Basic Assembly on the content, design and performance of Game On, a new multimedia performance piece at the Chocolate Factory, NYC, touring with Miguel Guiterrez, Maria Hassabi, Daniel Linehan and LeeSaar the Company, remount of Blind Spot at PS122, lighting for Juliette Mapp’s Anna, Ikea and I at Danspace Project, John Jasperse Company’s Misuse liable to prosecution at the BAM Harvey Theater, Maria Hassabi’s Gloria and robbinschilds’ C.L.U.E. at PS122, Beth Gill and Daniel Linehan at Dance Theater Workshop.
Levasseur lives in Astoria, NY.
Joe Levasseur
