Leslie Cuyjet is a dance artist in Brooklyn. She has performed formally and informally with contemporaries, legends and counterparts on rooftops, in alleyways, on good and bad floors, in film, in galleries, on tour and on the fly since 2004. Her independent work has been presented in New York by Gibney Dance (DoublePlus), CPR (Fall Movement, PSOH), Movement Research (Fall Festival, Judson Church), AUNTS (Realness, Populous) and Danspace Draftworks. She is a 2017-18 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Hailing from the Ohio Valley in Louisville, Kentucky, Leslie came armed with a B.F.A. in dance from the University of Illinois to New York in 2004. She currently lives in Brooklyn. She is also left-handed and a member of the Park Slope Food Co-op.
