Rate My Professor Leslie Seiters

Since 2002, Seiters has directed Leslie Seiters/little known dance theater, an art-making entity now based in San Diego. She co-directs lean-to-productions with longtime collaborator Rachael Lincoln and is a member of the improvisation practice and performance collective LIVE. Her choreography has been presented internationally in Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, Germany, Indonesia, and throughout the United States. Seiters has earned San Francisco’s “izzie” awards in both choreography and visual design, as well as grants from the Zellerbach Family Fund and CASH Grants. She has held artist residencies at ODC Theater, CounterPULSE Theater, the Djerassi Foundation, Purdue University, and Goucher College. As a performer, she has collaborated with esteemed companies and artists including Sara Shelton Mann/Contraband, Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions, Dandelion DanceTheater, Bebe Miller, Scott Wells, Knee Jerk Project, Mary Armentrout, Abby Crain, Body Cartographers, and Jess Curtis/Gravity Physical Entertainment. In 2015, she was awarded tenure and promotion at San Diego State University. At SDSU, Seiters teaches dance technique, dance-making (choreography, improvisation, and performance), contact improvisation, choreography for the camera, and yoga. She creates new works with students, which have been selected for gala performances at American College Dance Festival Association conferences in the Baja and Northeast regions. Seiters is committed to interdisciplinary projects that make dance accessible and influential in diverse contexts beyond the studio and theater.