Ray Sullivan has performed dances by more than forty choreographers in North America, South America, Asia and Europe. He danced with Argentina’s El Ballet Contemporáneo del Teatro San Martin for five years, including as a guest soloist in Kuarahy with international ballet star Julio Bocca. He was in the first American cast to dance Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwai-Min’s Crossing The Black Waters, in NY and Holland. In Tokyo, Mr. Sullivan performed for Masako, Crown Princess of Japan. Recently he performed with Soledad Centurion Yedro as guest artists in Absinthe at Speigelworld Miami. He has performed with numerous other companies including Connecticut Ballet, Zig Zag Ballet, The Paul Hall Contemporary Dance Theater Company, Les Ballets Grandiva, Dance Esaias and earlier as an understudy for the Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center.

In New York he trained in the Martha Graham and Jose Limon Techniques, at the Paul Taylor School, the Joffrey Ballet School, the David Howard School, and Broadway Dance Center. He earned a B.F.A. in dance from State University of New York at Purchase. His earlier training was in Connecticut at the New Haven Ballet School and he graduated high school from the Educational Center for the Arts with a major in dance. Throughout his training he was the recipient of numerous scholarships for excellence.  

As a choreographer he has received excellent reviews in North and South America on main stages, festivals, dance series and for television. Since 1987 he has choreographed 34 works. Mr. Sullivan has taught ballet and modern dance in Argentina and the United States since 1990. He has developed his own technique, Sullivan Technique, and has prepared dancers for international competitions in France, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. He has taught master classes of Sullivan Technique to the Ballet of the famed Colon Theater in Buenos Aires, at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut, at New World School of the Arts in Miami and at festivals such as Ballet Intensive from Moscow in Michigan and Florida Dance Festival. From 2000-2004, Mr. Sullivan was on faculty of Miami City Ballet School. He has developed a syllabus for Miami Contemporary Dance School’s comprehensive dance education programs for young students ages 3 – 18 and adults. Mr. Sullivan served on the Steering Committee for Dance for Life and on a selection panel for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. He was awarded the 2004-2005 Dance Miami Choreographer’s Fellowship from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. Mr. Sullivan was presented with the Key to the City of Miami Beach by Commissioner Simon Cruz at the Jackie Gleason performance of Tango Undressed and was recognized as one of Florida's 100 Power Players by Florida International Magazine in 2006. Ray Sullivan was recently chosen to work  as the national master teacher in choreography for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.