
For All Your Life
Created by Leslie Cuyjet
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- Fall 2025
Deemed “a potent choreographic force” by The New York Times, Cuyjet is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and received a 2019 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award. Her solo Blur earned a 2022 award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator, and With Marion (2023) reflected on the legacy of her great-aunt, Marion Cuyjet, a pioneer in Black dance education. Learning that major insurers once sold policies on enslaved people became the seed for For All Your Life, complicating Cuyjet’s own understanding of value, mortality, and legacy. Extending beyond the stage, the project includes a companion website (forallyourlife.com), a digital marketplace that invites audiences to confront how Black life and death have been—and continue to be—quantified.
Film direction by Daniele Sarti
Original set and stage design by Neal Wilkinson
Lighting design by Amanda K. Ringger
Sound design by Max Ludlow
Co-produced by Jennifer Castro Song and Sweat Variant
Originally commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater. Made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; supported by the Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Production Stipend, and the IndieSpace Pay Your People Grant. Developed with support from a 2023-2024 Research Residency at Danspace Project and developed in part during a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, NY. Support of the January 2025 remounting was provided by New York Live Arts/Live Artery and CPR – Center for Performance Research.
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