Leni Wylliams graduated in 1979 from Thomas Jefferson High School.
12 Facts About Leni Wylliams
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Ultimately, Pomare set all of his solos on Leni Wylliams - entrusting Leni Wylliams to dance all of the roles he - Pomare - had created and performed for himself.
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Leni Wylliams danced in the companies of Jose Limon, Pina Bausch, Paul Sanasardo, Donald Byrd, Fred Benjamin, and Rod Rodgers, as well as with Netherlands Danse Theatre and Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company.
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Leni Wylliams choreographed for ballet and modern dance companies around the world.
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Leni Wylliams taught in Russia, East Germany, Asia, and throughout the United States.
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In Boston during the late 1980s, Leni Wylliams was interim-artistic-director of the Danny Sloan Dance Company; was founding artistic director of Wyll Danse Theatre; collaborated with acclaimed television producer Barbara Barrow-Murray; appeared 1989 with Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston [OCB]; was assistant choreographer to renown-Broadway-choreographer Patricia Birch for the OCB's 1989 staging of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, as well as for an 1989 OCB engagement at the Bolshoi in Moscow.
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Leni Wylliams was assistant choreographer for Martin, a ballet tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Leni Wylliams met Mary Pat Henry while both were guest artists during a 1987 Victoria Arts Collaborative summer intensive in Victoria, BC, Canada.
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Henry, who during 1986 had relocated from New York City to the University of Missouri-Kansas City to teach at its Conservatory of Music, beckoned Leni Wylliams to join her there too which he did during 1990.
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That signature solo danced by Leni Wylliams was shown along with a select array of presentations by other NBAF performance artists in a televised documentary of the festival - Ark of the Spirit - with Avery Brooks produced by Turner Broadcasting System.
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Leni Wylliams' blood was found on shoes and clothing belonging to Evans.
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Leni Wylliams built by co-artistic directors Leni Wylliams and Mary Pat Henry changed the face of dance in the Midwest.