Movement Workshop Group

Dance Theater, Comedy and Live Rock Music for an Inspired Psychic State
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   Leslie Guyton
                                           Artistic Director

is a dance & theater director based out of Brooklyn, NY.  She's the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Movement Workshop Group.   She assistant directed Under Construction with Anne Bogart and SITI Company in April 2011.  Her commercial work includes choreographing in conjunction with the directing duo The Daniels on the band Foster the People's music video Houdini and a dance mash-up advertisement for Adidas.

Guyton observed rehearsals with Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal in Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, and the US in 2007 and 2008.  Guyton was Assistant to the Executive Director at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance from 2009-2010 and was a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2009.

Under Guyton's direction, the Movement Workshop Group has created four evening-length pieces each inspired by an element.  Her works have been presented at such institutions as Dixon Place, La MaMa ETC, John Hancock Hall, the A.R.T.'s Club Oberon, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, The Brecht Forum, Montauk's Sole East and Movement Research at Dance Theater Workshop.  The Boston Globe chose Dust to Dust (2006) and Moontides (2008) as "Dance Pick of the Week" in 2006 and 2008 respectively.