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Leah Crosby

Graduate Student, MFA Program

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Leah Crosby, wearing a white suit and boots with orange hair and sunglasses

Biography

Curriculum Vitae
  • BFA, Performance and Choreography, Ohio University Honors Tutorial College

Leah Crosby (they/them) is a multimedia artist, collaborator, and genre-bender. They are a daydream creator interested in the empathetic potential of fantasy, the use of play and pleasure, the activation of public spaces, and designing participatory events. With cheeky humor and a flair for the devastating, they use the combined forces of dance, narrative storytelling, musical composition, sculpture, puppetry, and experience design to make work that is hilariously sad.

They graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography. They are a Licensed Massage Therapist, a Third Degree Reiki Practitioner (master-level), a Certified Yoga Teacher, and they have the blessing of the Royal Thai Ministry of Education to perform Thai Massage. They enjoy petting other people's cats, playing with other people's children, and weeding other people's gardens.

Work

a clear box holds a mess of wires connecting to several cassette recorders, all attached to the handlebars of a salmon colored bicycle Leah Crosby: The Undone: The Operator Graduate Leah Crosby: The Undone: The Operator
hug trailer Leah Crosby and Alyza DelPan Monley: envelop: blueprints for unhad hugs Graduate Leah Crosby and Alyza DelPan Monley: envelop: blueprints for unhad hugs
a figure in a white suit moves in front of a yellow wall. their face and hands are obscured by a latticework of blue medical gloves. Leah Crosby: Skinless Graduate Leah Crosby: Skinless
A flier for an event describing a live, site-specific audio experience Leah Crosby and Hannah Simmons: Field Guides at Freeway Park Graduate Leah Crosby and Hannah Simmons: Field Guides at Freeway Park
several images of performers dancing in their backyards Leah Crosby, Ari Kaufman, Danielle Evelena Doell: Cooped Up: We're Still Inside Graduate Leah Crosby, Ari Kaufman, Danielle Evelena Doell: Cooped Up: We're Still Inside