morgaine ann de leonardis is a dyslexic irish-italian-american dance artist from the heights of jersey city, nj (lenapehoking). she lives and creates between jersey city, london, and galway.

morgaine works as a choreographer-director, performer, teacher-facilitator, accessibility practitioner, life model, and server.

her dance-theater creations and collaborations range from stage work, site-specific, immersive, and film. at the heart of her creativity is a drive to curate and hold spaces generous enough for her collaborators, audiences, and class-takers to feel seen, heard, and felt.

she uses intimate, interactive, emotional, and multi-sensorial storytelling to build memorable experiences with complex characters that invite audiences to be active participants and valued witnesses of each work's world.

morgaine also finds immense inspiration from physical space and is fascinated with the process of excavating the stories and energies of a given room, building, or site to draw out the heart of each location's memory. 

“I dance to understand, if it wasn’t for dance this world would make no sense to me”