Leslie O’Neill embraced dance at the age of 18, beginning her formal training in college dance programs at the University of WI in Green Bay and University of Minnesota. She began her professional performance career as a company member for Black Label Movement from 2005-2009, and continued in Zenon Dance Company from 2006-2019 when the company closed. In that span Leslie earned recognitions for her outstanding performances with Sage Award nominations and the McKnight Fellowship for Dancers in 2010, and has slowly developed a body of choreographic work with incredible support from her community and multiple funding sources. Leslie has collaborated with an array of local independent artists over 20 years and this performance marks her first process with SLO dance--she hopes it is not the last. Moving forward, Leslie intends to continue expressing herself through movement and performance, baking, flying trapeze, thrifting, and paint-by-number.