FF4 Modern Dance: Leslie Merrill

Leslie Merrill is a performer, choreographer, teacher, and video artist.  She received her MFA in Performance and Choreography from the University of Colorado in 2007.  At CU, she directed the CU Contemporary Danceworks touring company, served as a TA for Dance History, and taught modern and jazz dance technique.  She has also taught at Dynamic Expressions, Traci Stone’s Dance Connection, Mosaic Movement Arts, and Jefferson High School.  She is currently enjoying teaching modern and composition at Ballet Noveau Colorado.  Leslie has enjoyed performing with Haan Dances, Move On Dance Company, and Louder than Words Dancetheatre and dancing and choreographing for RADAR: Dance in Reverse and Interweave Dance Theatre.  She has recently begun working with Ascential Dance as a performer and choreographer.  Her video and choreographic work has been shown as part of the Denver Independent Choreographer’s Project, the Bliss Festival, openended, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the American Dance Festival’s Dancing for the Camera, the T.A.R.L.A. Dance for Camera Festival, the University of Kentucky Dance Ensemble Concert, the In Tangible Bodies Conference, the Collision Symposium on Interarts Practices, the Installation Innovation exhibit, with Haan Dances as part of Blessed and Broken and Beyond the Comfort Zone, and on tour with the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in Colorado, Mexico, and Germany.  Leslie is very excited to be involved in this Femme Fatale Four Event!