morgaine ann de leonardis is a dyslexic irish-italian-american dance artist working as a movement director, choreographer, performer, and accessibility practitioner. morgaine’s dance/theater creations and collaborations range from stage work, site-specific, immersive, and film, often inspired by the physical language, motion, and emotion of everyday life.

morgaine has been commissioned to make site-specific work across NYC, New Jersey, and London and has premiered three evening length works in the last two years: No Place Like Home, a dinner and dance-theater show for an audience of 23, let live: a dance opera on life and death, and Opening Reception a cheeky site-specific piece taking place at the opening night of a visual art exhibition.

morgaine currently performs with The Missing Theater Company in Instructions on How To Be Alone. She has performed as an actor and dancer in FX and Hulu’s American Horror Stories’ immersive NYC Shop (Oct 2022) and Third Rail Projects’ Bessie award winning immersive work, Then She Fell (2019-2020) as the role of Alice. She's worked with KDV Dance Ensemble (Berlin, Germany 2021), Anna Gichan (NJ 2023), and Lucy Kerr (NYC & LA, 2018-2020). Additionally, morgaine co-facilitates Kinetic Light’s LAB: a virtual and social creative space for disabled artists. 

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