Leslie Cuyjet | Friday | July 24 | 7:30PM

For All Your Life is an ongoing performance project that examines the value of black life and black death, through the mechanism of life insurance. In the presentation, Brooklyn-based choreographer Leslie Cuyjet delivers a seminar that teaches us about the insurance industry and its direct connection to the transatlantic slave trade, highlights the way we respond to death, and provokes a reflection on how we regard life.

Photo Credit: Maria Baranova

LESLIE CUYJET is an award-winning performer and choreographer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her dances often integrate text, video, and live performance while interrogating the performing body, personal legacy, and dance history. Mostly known as a performer, she is also a writer and video editor, which all play an ongoing role in shaping her interdisciplinary artistic practice. Her tenure in New York is decorated with performances and collaborations with Jane Comfort, Cynthia Oliver, Niall Jones, Yanira Castro, Will Rawls, David Gordon, NARCISSISTER, Kim Brandt, and Sarah Michelson, among others. Cuyjet’s work has been presented at BAM, The Kitchen, The Shed, ICA Boston, The Chocolate Factory, and Center for Performance Research. Recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, and an Outstanding Choreographer/Creator “Bessie” Award for her 2021 work, Blur.

Join us in the Beer Garden on the Alumni Walk outside the theatre for drinks & conversation with the artists immediately following the show!

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