About

Rosalynde LeBlanc is a BESSIE-nominated performer, as well as a choreographer, educator, and producer who has spent thirty years in dance. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Hollins University. She is a professor and current Chair of the Dance Program at Loyola Marymount University. Prior to her academic career, Rosalynde was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, and the Liz Gerring Dance Company. As a guest artist, Rosalynde has danced with Summation Dance, Colleen Thomas Dance, Keith Johnson and Dancers, Charles Moulton, Keigwin + Company, in productions with New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and with Joachim Schlömer for the 250th Mozart Celebration in Salzburg, Austria. She has had her writing published in Dance Magazine, Ballettanz, and Cultural Studies  Critical Methodologies, her choreography has been licensed and commissioned by professional and student companies around the country. She continues her work with Bill T. Jones in the preservation of his legacy and pedagogy, directing the Educational Partnership between the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and LMU’s Dance Program.

Rosalynde also produced and co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film, “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters” which received funding from  the Graves Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. In 2020, Rosalynde’s work in dance and service to education earned her an honorary induction into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu.