{"id":19643,"date":"2024-06-25T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=19643"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","slug":"leonard-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/leonard-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-block-id=\"block-51f1c780-3401-4ad3-887c-c0c33bc2f7ba\">Leonard Perez<\/h2>\n<h2>Milwaukee Ballet II<br \/>\nDayton Ballet<br \/>\nIndianapolis Ballet<br \/>\nCollage Dance Collective (2019-present)<\/h2>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-0f3e37ab-6d94-4be7-9918-01d8c485e80b\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full wp-image-31573 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/collagedance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/new_0009_Leonard-P-100x100.jpg 100w\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" \/>LEONARD PEREZ, from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, has trained in Spanish dance with the Ensemble Espa\u00f1ol Spanish Dance Theater in ballet and modern dance at the Ruth Page School of Dance. He has studied on scholarship at Northeastern Illinois University and has been awarded full scholarships to summer intensive programs at Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Ailey School, River North Dance Chicago, Thodos Dance Chicago, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and the Ruth Page School of Dance. He danced with Milwaukee Ballet II during the 2015\u20132016 season and has performed works by Ron de Jesus, Michael Pink, Septime Webre, Randy Duncan, Ruth Page, Lee Wei Chao, Ilya Kozadayev, Brian MacDonald, Victor Alexander and Spanish dance duo Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez. Leonard has performed in the Chicago Dancing Festival, Jacob\u2019s Pillow International Inside\/Out Dance Festival, Dance for Life Chicago, and St. Louis\u2019 Spring To Dance Festival. He has also danced professionally with Dayton Ballet where he performed works by Gina Patterson and Jiri Kylian and Indianapolis Ballet where he performed works by Joshua Bergasse and George Balanchine. This is Leonard\u2019s fifth season with Collage Dance Collective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collagedance.org\/dancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonard Perez, Collage Dance Collective<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collagedance.org\/dancerspotlight\/leonard-perez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Getting to Know Company Artist Leonard Perez, Collage Dance<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvusoundmovement.com\/post\/dance-dancer-of-the-month-august-2022-leonard-perez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dancer of the Month &#8211; August 2022, Leonard Perez, Horizon VU Sound and Movement<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/memphishealthandfitness.com\/dancing-through-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dancing Through Diversity, Memphis Health and Fitness<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pointemagazine.com\/gap-year-after-high-school-for-preprofessional-training\/#gsc.tab=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Considering a Gap Year After High School? Here\u2019s What You Need to Know, Pointe Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"V5XKdd\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\">\n<div class=\"ZtihLe\">\n<div class=\"OwbDmd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C4Nt0xaA4GI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frappe: striking action<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/leonardperezjr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@leonardperezjr<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Perez Milwaukee Ballet II Dayton Ballet Indianapolis Ballet Collage Dance Collective (2019-present) LEONARD PEREZ, from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, has trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19667,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643\/revisions\/19667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}