Leslie Cuyjet
Leslie Cuyjet is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice is decorated with performances and collaborations, both formal and informal; with contemporaries, legends, and counterparts; on rooftops, good and bad floors, and alleyways; on stage, in film, art, on tour, and on the fly since 2004. She was awarded a 2019 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for her sustained achievement as Outstanding Performer. And her 2021 solo Blur earned her a 2022 award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography.
“A potent choreographic voice,” says The New York Times. Her independent work has been presented in New York, where she aims to conjure life-long questions of identity, confuse and disrupt traditional narratives, and demonstrate the angsty, explosive, sensitive, pioneering excellence of the Black woman.
