Frank Leasing
Frank Leasing is a somatics facilitator and researcher and an interdisciplinary artist. They are interested in time and place as hegemonic concepts that reside in our tissues, and exploring embodiment as a means to unsettle historical conceits and probe the project of liberation.
A background in poetry and creative writing orient Leasing toward a dance practice that is contingent on the embodied image and the possibility of experiencing and creating text that isn’t alphabetic. Through group movement inquiry, performance, and one-on-one therapeutic engagements, they seek to dimensionalize how cultural narratives of progress and return situate and operate the experience of a body.
Their performance practice takes the form of associative, research-based, ritual essays that collide movement, archival media, and written and spoken word. Their work has been presented at CounterPulse andUnderground SF and HIT Gallery, San Francisco; The Lab; and 2727 California Street, Berkeley, among other spaces. They have also appeared as a performer with Harupin-Ha Dance Theater and Jules Litman-Cleper at venues including Zebulon and Gray Area.