BFA in Dance 2024
❤️❤️we out❤️❤️
humbled and grateful for every experience- thank you thank you to my mentors, faculty, peers, family and loved ones
enjoy many arrays of lighting and a photo of me watching Mitt Romney speak over and distastefully mock brave student supporters of Palestine at our JohnS Hopkins Commencement
love’s in need of love today -Stevie Wonder
Thank you ACDA for a fabulous week ❤️☺️
………………… (1) rehearsing in the parking lot (2) peabody family giving levels (3) sister🩵 (4) the most gorgeous amphitheater at Meredith College (5) the real thing! Choreography by Reilly Sheriff ‼️ (6) pre adjudicated show with Jackson (7) hot pot with my Nola fam (8) contemporary African with VCU professor Sinclair (9) my partner in class, General!
(10) enough said
(11) Iva showing her K-Pop dances and me attempting to shadow her
Camping media from Elk Neck this spring & Belleplain State Park at the beginning of the summer. Im super grateful to @ui_seng & @rollachng who have made these experiences and my time on the east coast so amazing !!! Thank you to the crew and chefs especially 😍😍 (my first fire🔥, ferry to Jersey, Chef Seans lobster scallop salmon and shrimp risotto on the fire, ninja, and crawfish monica at the watering hole…) this life is good! 🤍
What Slithers Beneath the Baobab Tree
choreography by Caleb Dowden & dancers
photography by Aaron Duplessis
I’m leaving New Orleans today feeling full and blessed to have been apart of @dow.dance_ second season of Binge Dance Festival! Congratulations choreographers and dancers ✨🤍
I am super excited to have been accepted to @bodytraffic summer program in LA! I cannot wait to train and create with wonderful artists, thank you @bodytraffic for this opportunity! 💙✨#bodytrafficsummer
first photo credit: @rushj_dance
a moment from ‘almost comatose’ co-choreographed and performed by @reilly.sheriff@ui_seng and myself Music: Rapture by Blondie **I do not own rights to music**
picture from “Cycles” by Ja’Myra LaSalle @jamyralasalle
Repost from @rushj_dance
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Meet the soloist:
Leah Carpenter is a New Orleans native, artist, and dancer. She attended high school at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and is currently pursuing a BFA in dance through Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins. Leah has had the opportunity to work with world renowned artists and companies such as Ronald K Brown/EVIDENCE , Complexions, PHILADANCO!, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Trey McIntyre Project, and Parsons Dance Company. She has also studied at Bates Dance Festival in Maine and The Ailey School in New York City. She has been able to perform in Philadelphia through Point Park University and Norfolk, Virginia through the Governor’s School of the Arts. Her drive and passion for risk set her apart as a choreographer and performer, proving innovative and curious. Leah is looking forward to her Baltimore debut.
Leah is also presenting a new work of her own in the Peabody BFA Dance Virtual Concert this Saturday at 3 pm. Livestream link in my bio, and go give Leah a follow @lzcarpen !
