I am a “Live Core Artist” — fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts — and I have lots of projects and ideas in various stages of completion. You can read about all of them below.
If you would like to support my work, please visit my NYLA donor page.
And thank you for your support!
2011
2017
A moment from WOMANLAND’s work-in-progress premiere at LAUNCH: L.A. 2025, the competitive choreographic residency of L.A. Dance Project. Photo is of dancers, Camila Arana, Marissa Brown, and Eliza Loren. Photo by Skye Schmidt Varga
More from WOMANLAND’s work-in-progress premiere:
“LAUNCH: L.A. Provides Launch Pad for Emerging Choreographers”
“L.A. Dance Project’s LAUNCH: L.A. 25 Presented Two Very Strong Works”
WOMANLAND is a multi-media, dance-theater piece crafted from real women’s stories of employment, motherhood, marriage, and miscarriage. It aims to craft an artful and honest portrayal of the the ways in which the long arm of American politics, legislation, and culture reach inside the female body and female psyche.
WOMANLAND is nearly complete! The central solo - a depiction through movement, animation, music, magic, and text of the lesser known stories about abolitionist, suffragist, soldier, spy, Harriet Tubman - is the last section to complete of this evening-length work.
I AM TRYING TO RAISE:
$25,000 for artist-collaborator fees
The artist-collaborators:
Pamela Z - award-winning musician/composer will write an original score
Michael Cole - award-winning AI filmmaker will finish the animated projections
Dr. Robert Rovetti - mathematician and scholar will continue our development of stochastic processes that can translate the variables of movement-for-survival’s-sake into choreography
A magician (yet to be determined) will help me develop choreography that brings the miraculous and numinous experience to this dance performance
WOMANLAND received the 2026 Finalist Grant Award from the National Dance Project. Funds raised will be combined with the grant money to help support rehearsals of WOMANLAND and prepare the piece for performances and tours.
WOMANLAND
Would you like to help me get WOMANLAND over the finish line?
Rosalynde LeBlanc is a 2026 NDP Finalist Grant Award recipient. Support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation in support of WOMANLAND and to address continued sustainability needs.
I AM TRYING TO RAISE:
$200,000 for the full project budget
Itemized project budget available upon request.
2012
2025
LOVE is a short film/music video that will feature an original score by a Black film composer and a cast and crew entirely made up of people of color. Inspired by the work of celebrated artist, Kehinde Wiley, LOVE will use the power of dance and cinematography to re-choreograph and recast scenes of romantic, familial, and platonic love with Black and Brown bodies, thereby crafting a visually vibrant and emotionally compelling refutation of dehumanization. Recruiting from the diverse pool of preeminent dancer-artists here in Los Angeles, LOVE will be a timely and accessible work of cinematic art that stands as a choreo-visual manifestation of professor and activist, Dr. Cornel West’s famous words, “Justice is what love looks like in public.”
Original photo by Skye Schmidt Varga
LOVE
Would you like to help bring LOVE into the world?
Quiet As It’s Kept
Quiet As It’s Kept is a site-specific piece in co-creation with Princess Grace award winning dancer/choreographer, Marcella Lewis. Quiet As It’s Kept uses this idiom of African American southern culture as the launching off point to explore the cultural movement and colloquial body language that downplays trauma in the attempt to protect dignity and shield shame. Through choreography, music, theatrical staging and the unique architectures of site-specific locales, Quiet As It’s Kept depicts a mother and daughter grappling with their secrets and silences, one dedicated to saving face, the other dedicated to saving self. The piece asks: what does it cost a community to keep quiet, and what becomes possible when that silence breaks?
Marcella and I premiered the first iteration of Quiet As It’s Kept at INDOOR.SWAPMEET in the Inglewood neighborhood of Los Angeles - a venue that serves as a swap meet during the day and a performance space at night and rich with a storied past of abundance and vacancy.
We now have an offer to remount the piece in Spring 2027 at the historic Wilfandel Clubhouse, a location that houses deep histories and legacies of Black Los Angeles.
Quiet As It’s Kept was commissioned by No.One Art House
Photo to the left by Jason Williams. Photos below by Jobel Medina
WE ARE TRYING TO RAISE:
$20,000 for the cost of production in a non-theatrical space
Production costs include:
Artist & Designer fees
Production staff
Props & Costumes
Lighting instrument rental
Audio system rental
Marketing & Promotion
If you are interested in supporting the spring ‘27 performances of Quiet As It’s Kept, please contact me.
Resident Artists/Dancing Mamas - The Film
Resident Artists/ Dancing Mamas is made up of five dancer-mother-artist-scholars, Margaret Sunghe Paek, Dahlia Nayar, Tami Stronach, Lanette Costas and me. While in grad school together from 2009-2011 we all either had our first child or our second. By 2011, we formed Resident Artist/Dancing Mamas, a performance collective of us and our children that has been in active collaboration for 15 years. We have performed twice at Danspace/St. Mark’s Church (2011 & 2017), the Whitney Museum Biennale (2012), and Lawrence University (2021)
IMPRESARIO: AN APP LINKING MINDS WITH MEANS
IMPRESARIO is an idea for an app to help foster the artist-benefactor relationship in a way that frees the American artist from grant-writing labor and facilitates rewarding, person-to-person, and immediate impact for America’s affluent citizens.
Arts funding models in America are broken. Federal funding is subject to the whims of political partisanship and foundation grant applications are time-consuming, laborious, and improbable. The American artist often spends more time trying to fund the work than they do creating it. IMPESARIO would combine the image-centered design of apps like Instagram with the keen curation algorithms of dating apps to link wealthy citizens with active, professional artists through projects in progress. Unlike crowdfunding apps like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and Patreon, IMPRESARIO would not seek funding from the crowd; it would seek funding from the elite. Minimum contributions could be set at $10,000 - a nominal amount for many prosperous individuals but transformative support for an independent artist, often enough to carry their project from imagination to fruition. IMPRESARIO, as the name suggests, activates the rewarding and meaningful impact that one individual can make. Funders would be able to curate their experience on the app according to the type of work, the type of artist, the region they want to support, or even their giving terms. I am looking for a think-partner in the tech space who values the-artist-making-art and the-wealthy-making-an-impact and who sees the potential of IMPRESARIO to bring ease, reliability, directness and meaningful connection to arts funding in America.