Rate My Professor Leslie Seiters

Leslie Seiters serves as Assistant Director, Professor of Dance, and Dance Coordinator in the School of Music and Dance at San Diego State University. She studied visual art as an undergraduate at Kenyon College and received an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. She is currently training to become a Feldenkrais practitioner at the Feldenkrais Center in San Diego. Seiters has primarily lived and worked on the West Coast, establishing herself as a prominent figure in contemporary dance through her multifaceted career as a teacher, performer, choreographer, and director.

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.