Leslie Cuyjet

Leslie Cuyjet is a choreographer and performer. She has collaborated with Jane Comfort, David Gordon, Niall Noel Jones, Cynthia Oliver, Juliana F. May, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Julian Barnett, Stephanie Acosta, Vanessa Walters, NARCISSISTER, Sean Donovan and Sebastián Calderón Bentin, Emily Wexler, David Thomson, Mark Dendy, The A.O. Movement Collective, and Will Rawls. Her independent work aims to unpack an archive that includes performing across postmodern and experimental forms while negotiating biographical and cultural authorities of blackness. Cuyjet has shown her work at La MaMa (La MaMa Moves! Festival/The Current Sessions), Gibney (DoublePlus), Center for Performance Research (Fall Movement), Movement Research (Fall Festival, Judson Church), AUNTS (Realness, Populous), and Danspace Draftworks. Leslie recently returned from a residency at Yaddo.