Leah is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher currently based out of Brooklyn, with deep roots in the Piedmont region of NC. At times, she is also a gardener, elder and end-of-life companion, musician, and writer. Leah has taught and shared her work in a variety of locations including the American Dance Festival, Elon University, University of Michigan, Montclair State University, Ponderosa Tanzland festival, Gibney Dance, the Hemispheric Institute, and PROTEO|media+performance’s Post/Futures Festival. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she received awards for teaching and choreography. Leah has collaborated/performed with a variety of artists including Okwui Okpokwasili, Alexis Blake, Kendra Portier, Tatyana Tennenbaum, Anna Barker/Real.Live.People, and Thomas DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE. She has been an Artist in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn, an Associate Artist in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, and a MacDowell Fellow.
