Choreography with Sean McLeod:

Sean McLeod is an award winning Producer and Choreographer whose work spans more than 20 years and three continents. Mr. McLeod works in New York City as well as in major cities across the US, internationally to the West Indies, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Mr. McLeod's work is based in his dance technique and choreographic style.

McLeod Technique (MT), also known as Movement Therapy, is Sean McLeod’s patented dance technique that blends Classical Ballet, the modern foundations of Limón, Graham, and Horton techniques, Martial Arts principles, African Dance, Latin influences, and Urban Social Dance. The technique, created at the New York Institute of Dance Education, was developed to train dancers by engaging their emotions to facilitate honest movement and encourage good mental health. McLeod Technique has a vast movement range, an emotional vocabulary, and a process that inspires dancers to be happy people!

About McLeod Technique:

At its inception, Sean felt he was too young to take credit for developing a new dance technique and to have it named after him. He chose to have participants studying the movement theory call it “MT,” for Movement Therapy. He had a motto: “If you have a problem in your day or in your life, your job is to come to class and just move it out!” Sean utilized this ideal before the clinical version of Movement Therapy really took hold, nearly 20 years ago. Since then Sean has finally been convinced to embrace the name of “McLeod Technique.”

Sean McLeod conceived a dance technique that was more an experience of survival, and turned it into a movement of self-assurance, forgiveness, and fulfillment. As most dancers do, Sean had come to study and hate his every imperfection because of the unforgiving yet beautiful experience of dance. However, he always noticed that no matter how bad it was for him, it was always far worse for the girls! Dance could be an absolute place of destruction for a woman’s self image and ability to see herself as anything other than a work in progress, fighting her body for a perfection that honestly would never come. Sean’s dance technique was primarily created to help women learn to appreciate themselves again. MT showed women their value, and then locked it into their bodies and souls through movement. The results were immediately noticeable. No matter how many times the dancers made mistakes, they stopped self-loathing and started to learn how to fail with smiles on their faces. Shortly thereafter, Sean realized men were not exempt from these feelings and self-attacks! He soon incorporated male experiences into the development, and the technique became universal.

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