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LESLEY GARRISON
Dancer Educator Creator
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Lesley grew up in Swansea, Illinois, and received her early dance training at the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. She studied at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie in The Netherlands and holds a B.F.A. from Purchase College. She is a member of the Mark Morris Dance group, first performing with MMDG in 2007 and becoming a company member in 2011. Garrison is fully certified in mat and equipment Pilates through the Kane School of Core Integration and is a 200 hour registered yoga teacher through Yoga Vida. She teaches Pilates and modern dance at The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center and in masterclasses worldwide. Garrison has had the honor of being a teaching artist for the renowned Dance for PD® program since 2011. Her choreography has been presented at the Mark Morris Dance Center, SUNY Purchase, Ailey Fordham and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, at the Smithsonian Institution.
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TEACHING SCHEDULE
August 2022
Monday 8/8 -- 5:30-6:30pm
DANCE FOR PD PRO
Mark Morris Dance Center (hybrid)
Wednesday 8/9 -- 6:30-8pm
INTERMEDIATE MODERN DANCE
Mark Morris Dance Center (hybrid)
Saturday 8/20 -- 10-11:30am
BEGINNER BALLET
Mark Morris Dance Center (hybrid)
Tuesday 8/23 -- noon-1:30pm
BEGINNER MODERN
Mark Morris Dance Center (hybrid)
Wednesday 8/24 -- 2:15-3:15pm
DANCE FOR PD
Mark Morris Dance Center
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Performance Reviews
"It’s worth adding that Garrison, outstanding for several reasons among the company’s women, is deepening her spell, with an intensely affective quality that’s rare anywhere." - Alastair Macaulay
"the most vividly suggestive of diverse moods" - Alastair Macaulay (New York Times)
"She gave the solo a look of gale-force wildness, as she whipped and rippled her arms, and spun into a blur." - Sarah L. Kaufman (Washington Post)
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