LESLIE IS A MOVEMENT DIRECTOR + CHOREOGRAPHER IN BROOKLYN.
SHE WILL MAKE ALL YOUR DANCE DREAMS COME TRUE.
MUSIC VIDEOS + COMMERCIALS
Her work includes choreographing for the band Foster the People's Grammy-nominated music video Houdini, Chadwick Stokes' Mother Maple and Our Lives Our Times, sElf's Top 10 Music Videos for Rolling Stone Runaway, a dance mash-up advertisement for Adidas, and an ad for NRG featuring NFL athletes among many others.
THE MOVESHOP
NATIONAL TOURING
She's the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The MoveShop. She choreographs, directs and teaches throughout the US and internationally. www.moveshop.org
The MoveShop's Racine D'or, toured the US and was funded in part by South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
Under Guyton's direction, The MoveShop has created six evening-length pieces entitled: Black Feathers (2005), Dust to Dust (2006), Moontides (2008), Wanderlust (2009-2012), Racine D'or (2013) and You Absolute Dreamer (2014) as well as two shorter works entitled Snow Globe (2012), and Both Bitter and Sweet Flow from the Same Fountain (2015-2017).
Her works have been presented at such institutions as University Settlement in NYC, Long Island University's Kumble Theater, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Samford University in Birmingham, AL, The Forum in Hazard, KY, Dixon Place in NYC, La MaMa ETC in NYC, John Hancock Hall in Boston, MA, the A.R.T.'s Club Oberon in Cambridge, MA, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, The Brecht Forum in NYC, Montauk's Sole East and Movement Research at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC.
AWARDS
Along with collaborators Eliza Lay and Pauline Legras, Guyton was awarded Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical or Play with Music at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity for Wanderlust. Guyton was awarded the Planet Connections Artist Grant and the APAP Cultural Exchange Fund Travel Grant on three occasions in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Her work has also been funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council.
INTERNATIONAL
The MoveShop's Both Bitter and Sweet Flow from the Same Fountain, premiered at the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Vitebsk, Belarus.
Guyton was invited to be a master teacher in Jacques Banayanga's Dance Festival in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and at the International Contemporary Dance Lab in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Guyton observed rehearsals with Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal in Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, and the US in 2007 and 2008.
BEYOND THE MOVESHOP
Guyton was Assistant to the Executive Director at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance from 2009-2010 and was a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2009.
She assistant directed Under Construction with Anne Bogart and SITI Company at New York Live Arts.