Rosalynde LeBlanc

Rosalynde LeBlanc is a Peabody Award-winning producer, and a New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) nominated performer, as well as a choreographer and educator who has spent over thirty years in dance. She is a full professor at Loyola Marymount University and chaired the dance department from 2019-2025, instituting new programs like SHIFT: Moving (Beyond) Oppressive Systems in Dance, the Equitable Commercial Dance Program, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Educational Partnership. Roz’s scholarly research examines movement as an archive and a conveyor of the lived experience. Her work spans the media of live performance, film, and creative nonfiction, and from 2023-24 she served as Loyola Marymount University’s first Director of Scholarly and Creative Practice.

Roz has choreographed dances for many professional and student companies around the country, among them, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, St. Paul’s School, and SUNY Brockport. In 2025, Roz was one of two choreographers selected for L.A. Dance Project’s competitive choreographic residency LAUNCH:L.A. where she created the multimedia, dance-theater piece, WOMANLAND which went on to receive the Finalist Award from the National Dance Project (NDP). Roz also produced and co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film, “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters,” earning research and production grants from the Drollinger, Graves, Mellon, and Ford foundations. The film was a N.Y. Times Critic’s Choice and on the ‘Best Films’ lists of Vulture and Esquire magazines. In 2023, “Can You Bring It” won the Peabody Award, which recognizes “the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.”

Roz began her professional dance career at nineteen as a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. She then danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov as a member of his White Oak Dance Project and continued to guest with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburg Opera Festival, and many independent choreographers. She still performs for stage and screen.

Roz’s work in dance and service to education earned her an honorary induction into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu, and the 2025 Exemplary Women in Dance in L.A. award. She holds an undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Purchase and a Master of Fine Arts from Hollins University.