Rosalynde LeBlanc (Dance History; Choreography/Composition) was born in Baltimore where she started dancing at the Peabody Preparatory at age thirteen. In 1992 she received a Performance Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts and then continued her studies at the SUNY Purchase where she received a B.F.A. in Dance in 1994. From 1993 to 1999 she danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. In the fall of 1999 she joined Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project with whom she danced until 2002. Professor LeBlanc has also regularly performed with the Metropolitan Opera since 2003. She has worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, John Jaspers, Charles Moulton, Lucinda Childs, Lawrence Goldhuber, and Liz Gerring; jazz percussionist, Max Roach; singer, Janet Jackson; film directors, John Turturro, Gretchen Bender, Matthew Rolston, and Burt Barr. She can be seen in the Emmy Award-winning dance documentary, Free to Dance, in Still/Here, in the short film, Roz, and the upcoming feature film, Romance and Cigarettes.