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biography.

Hailing from South Carolina, Leah Misano is a freelance dance and movement artist currently based in Cambridge, MA. Having graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2021, she has found an artistic home in the Boston area. Leah joined the ranks of Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance for their 2022/2023 season. Throughout her dance life, Leah has been a part of several new creations including that of Rauf “Rubberlegz” Yasit, Emilie Leriche, Nicole von Arx, Joseph Toonga, and several others. Coming from a strong ballet foundation, Leah finds herself most interested in the cross section between traditional Western concert dance and street dance: adopting ideas about flow from Latin American contemporary dance and methodology from breakers and hip hop artists and layering it with her own movement experience. Since July 2023, Leah has returned to her artistic home in Boston and joined faculty at Northeast School of Ballet and Boston Conservatory at Berklee as an assistant professor as well as continuing to engage in performance work and dive into her own choreography and movement practice.

artist statement.

It’s always about the human experience. Everything stripped down to its bare bones is about our want, need, and drive to connect to others.  Inherently everything created by humans has some form of humanity that exists within it. Rather if we mean it or not, there is always something there. We look to find meaning in everything we do and we want to find a reason for something to exist - for our existence. This never ending search for our care and passion is what keeps us moving forward. When we have intentions for something to never be more than what it is, we are just holding back our own emotional self to protect ourselves from the harshness of the world around us. I want to be fearless and loving and giving and soft and rough and selfish. I want to be everything always and everything between those things. Nothing is ever black and white.

artist reel.

history.

2024 - Present

2023

2022

2021

2021 and beyond

  • Premiered in 3 new creations in Whim W'Him's January Program

  • Premiered in 3 new creations in Whim W'Him's May Program

  • Participated in New Dialect's 2023 Summer Intensive

  • Relocated to Cambridge, MA

  • Announced as a Midday Movement Series' BIPOC Professional Dancer Mentee

  • Began position as an assistant professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee

  • Began as research artist with Ilya Vidrin/Partnering Lab

  • Co-choreographed Veil of Verona with Jun Kuribayashi at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee on Commercial Dance Class of 2025 (world premier)

  • Premiered in Proxies by Ilya Vidrin as a work-in-progress at Jacob's Pillow

  • Premiered in For you, I dream of me. by Kristin Wagner

  • Choreographed Untitled, a self-choreographed solo exploring floorwork at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (filmed on stage)

  • Graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance

  • Short film “An Aversion to Adaptations” was selected to be shown at 2021 Acadia Dance Festival (self-produced dance film)

  • Performed Otherwise (full-length) by Ilya Vidrin as a work-in-progress showing following residency at the Boston Center of the Arts

  • Assistant to choreographer for Handel with Care choreographed by Daniel Pelzig at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (world premier)

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