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Frankie Lee III

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🧑🏽‍🎨Founder of #FleeDanceAndWellness
📚Author #PastShame on #Amazon
🎨Artist in Residence #NCMuseumOfArt

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✨ NEXT WEEK… WE COME HOME. ✨

After years of building, teaching, performing, and growing across the country, I’m honored to return to the Bay Area for a week of movement, community, storytelling, and celebration.

Whether you’ve danced with me before or we’re meeting for the first time, I’d love to share this experience with you.

🗓 July 29 – August 1
• FREE donation-based community workshops @aaaculturecomplex
• Open-level technique class at Dance Mission Theater @dancemissiontheater
• Roots & Rhythm at Silki Movements Studio with Alicia Langlais @alicia.dance.inspire @silkimovements
• Bay Area Homecoming Performance, Book Interview & Community Activation featuring Alyssa Mitchell and Natalya Shoaf @alymitchel @natalyajanayshoaf

✨ RSVP today! Space is limited, so reserve your spot now. Tickets and registration are available through the link provided or the link in my bio.

If you believe in this work but can’t attend, you can still be part of this journey by donating to my GoFundMe. Every contribution helps make this tour, these community classes, performances, and outreach possible.

You can also support by:
❤️ Sharing this post
📲 Sending it to a friend, student, family member, or fellow artist
🏫 Inviting your dance studio, school, church, or community organization
🙏 Helping us spread the word throughout the Bay Area

Thank you for helping transform survival into impact through movement, healing, education, and community.

Let’s make next week unforgettable. See you in the Bay! taken in Bay Area, California by @fleedance

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5 days ago

FLEE Dance & Wellness is headed to the Bay July 27-August 2 for a week of movement, technique, storytelling, community, performance, and conversation.

From Oakland to the Mission District to the Fillmore, this homecoming is rooted in the places, people, and training that helped shape me as an artist — and now I get to return, share, teach, build, and move in community.

Join us for workshops at the African American Arts & Culture Complex, Dance Mission Theater, leading into our Saturday Finale: a Bay Area Homecoming Performance + Book Interview + Community Activation at the African American Arts & Culture Complex.

This week will also connect to my post-pandemic recovery journey, FLEE Dance & Wellness repertory, community movement, and my book Past Shame: Still Here — Undetectable & Untransmittable: A Miracle in Real Time.

Coproduced by We Build Cathedrals.

Move with us in class.
Build with us in community.
Share the space with us on Saturday.

Swipe for the full schedule + class details. taken in Bay Area, California by @fleedance

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a month ago

To God be all the glory! 🙌🏾✨

Just two days after my birthday, I have the incredible honor of presenting my first evening-length show in New York City—and I couldn’t be more grateful.

STILL HERE is more than a performance. It’s a celebration of God’s faithfulness, resilience, healing, community, and hope through dance and storytelling.

To everyone who has prayed, encouraged me, donated, purchased my book, or supported this journey—thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your love, generosity, and encouragement have helped make this moment possible.

If you’re in New York, I’d love to celebrate with you on Sunday, August 23 at Arts On Site. If you can’t attend, you can still support by purchasing a ticket, sharing this post, or donating to help bring this work to audiences in both San Francisco and New York City.

Every prayer, ticket, share, and donation makes a difference.

🎟️ Tickets: artsonsite.org
❤️ GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/a57f1d608 taken in Arts On Site by @fleedance

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6 days ago

Today, FLEE Dance & Wellness had the honor of visiting Project IMPACT Augusta, an HIV-prevention program serving Augusta and 12 surrounding counties across East Central Georgia through education, testing, PrEP access and connections to care.

I shared my lived experience, answered questions and listened to their insight on what is still needed to reduce stigma and better serve people affected by HIV.

I left with valuable resources, deep gratitude and the joy of donating a signed copy of my book, PAST SHAME, to the center and the greater Augusta community.

Thank you, Project IMPACT, for welcoming me with open arms and for the life-changing work you continue to do.

This is how survival becomes service.

#ProjectIMPACTAugusta #UequalsU #EndHIVStigma #HIVAwareness #FLEEDanceandWellness taken in Project Impact Augusta by @fleedance

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Frankie @fleedance and I have been talking through the class and y’all… I’m getting HELLA EXCITED. 😆

I keep imagining the freestyle circle… everybody hyping each other up, the music hitting just right, people letting go and finding that sweet spot where they’re not thinking anymore—they’re just dancing, inspiring each other and SLAYING!🗡️🐉✨

That’s my favorite part of teaching.

Those moments where strangers walk in and leave feeling like community. 🖤

That’s the energy we’re creating for ROOTS & RHYTHM.

We’ll honor the roots of jazz through the African diaspora, explore technique together, laugh together, and yes… we’re definitely gonna CUT UP. 😎🔥

If you’ve been needing a little joy, movement, and good people in your life, I hope you’ll join us.

🗓 Friday, July 31
⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Silki Movement Studio | Oakland

🎟️ Register through the LINK IN BIO ⛓️‍💥📲

Come make some memories with us. 🖤✨

#OaklandDance #BayAreaDance #RootsAndRhythm #JazzDance #AfroJazz by @fleedance

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5 days ago

Oakland, I’m coming back. 💚🫶🏽

Join me and the incredible Alicia Langlais for an evening rooted in movement, music, history, and community.

This isn’t just another dance class—it’s an experience. We’ll explore the African roots of jazz, build technique, move across the floor, freestyle together, and leave inspired.

Come for the technique.
Stay for the community.

📍 Silki Movements Studio: LINK IN BIO
🗓 Friday, July 31
⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM

Bring a friend. Bring your joy. Bring your whole self. by @fleedance

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8 days ago

Four years ago, I wasn’t sure if I would live.

Today, I’m preparing to teach, perform, share my book, and create spaces where movement, conversation, and community help break the stigma surrounding HIV.

This isn’t just about dance.
This isn’t just about a book.
This is about turning survival into service.

Every city I visit becomes an opportunity to:
🤍 Teach community dance classes.
📚 Donate and discuss my book.
🩵 Educate about HIV and U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable).
🌎 Build healing through art, movement, and honest conversation.

Your donation doesn’t just help me travel—it helps bring these experiences to communities that deserve them.

Whether it’s $5, $25, $100, or simply sharing this post, you’re helping transform one person’s survival into hope for someone else.

If my story has ever encouraged you, inspired you, or reminded you that healing is possible, I’d be honored if you’d help me continue this mission.

Every gift matters.
Every share matters.
Every person reached matters.

🩵 Donate by clicking link in my bio.
Thank you for believing in this journey. by @fleedance

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12 days ago

From sharing joy, laughter, and childlike play with families at Marbles Kids Museum through American Dance Festival — right in the area where I went to middle school — to returning to Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, where I went to high school and began taking dance more seriously, to work with the band dancers under Dezzi. @adf_dancestudios @amerdancefest @marblesraleigh

The places that helped raise me are now places I get to pour back into.

Movement is community. Movement is legacy. Movement is joy. Movement is discipline.

And this Saturday, I get to keep pouring into the community with NC Underground for Summer Conservatory Week 3. @ncundergrounddance

Come train with me:

Flexibility & Mobility Lab — 1:00–2:00 PM
Ballet Foundations — 2:10–3:10 PM
Turns & Leaps Lab — 3:20–4:20 PM

Register: www.ncunderground.org/classes by @fleedance

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18 days ago

🔥 Train with one of the industry’s most accomplished artists this Saturday! 🔥
We’re excited to welcome Frankie Lee III to the NC Underground Dance Summer Conservatory for an incredible afternoon of technical training.
Frankie is the Founder & Artistic Director of FLEE DANCE, a two-time Isadora Duncan Award nominee, Webby Award winner, 2022 Artist of Excellence Prism Award recipient, and a 2025 Jacob’s Pillow Ann Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellow. He has performed professionally with 30+ dance companies nationwide, taught for 90+ organizations, and brings a wealth of experience in concert dance, conditioning, and movement science.
As a certified Flexologist and NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Frankie offers a unique approach to building strength, flexibility, and technical excellence.
✨ Saturday, July 11
🕐 1:00–2:00 PM – Flexibility & Mobility Lab
🩰 2:10–3:10 PM – Ballet Foundations
💫 3:20–4:20 PM – Turns & Leaps Lab
📍 Durham, NC (Location provided upon registration)
💵 Single Class: $25
🎟️ Day Pass: $60
Whether you’re looking to improve your technique, increase flexibility, or refine your ballet and turns, this is a training opportunity you don’t want to miss.
🔗 Register today: www.ncunderground.org/classes
Drop-ins are welcome! 🙌
#NCUndergroundDance #SummerConservatory #DanceTraining #Ballet #Flexibility TurnsAndLeaps ContemporaryDance NorthCarolinaDance DanceEducation DurhamNC by @fleedance

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19 days ago

I’m excited to be leading an ADF Outreach Kids Class at Marbles Kids Museum for toddlers, little kids, and families. This joyful all-levels movement class will explore rhythm, imagination, creativity, and play while giving kids space to move big, laugh loud, and connect through dance.

📍 Marbles Kids Museum
201 E Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
📅 Sunday, July 5
⏰ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

ADF Outreach brings dance into the community through engaging classes led by professional teaching artists, and I’m grateful to share movement, joy, and creativity with the next generation right up the street where I went to middle school. taken in Marbles Kids Museum by @fleedance

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22 days ago

I gotta Empire State of Mind when it comes to reaching my goal. In my original post, I opened up about my life changing diagnosis & y’all showed up with love. Y’all showed up with support. Y’all showed up with encouragement & only 2 people showed up with a donation. 👀😭

So if I have to climb the Empire State Building to get the message across, I will 😂💁🏽‍♂️

Go donate to my GoFundMe please. LINK IN BIO

#gofundme #empirestatebuilding #empirestatebldg by @fleedance

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23 days ago

Four years ago, my HIV diagnosis brought me back to North Carolina.

I was on my deathbed, fighting to survive, and eventually had to relearn how to walk, heal, move, and see myself again.

But by the grace of God, I am still here.

I am alive.
I am undetectable and untransmittable.
I am still dancing.
I am still healing.
I am still becoming.

This fundraiser supports my next chapter through FLEE Dance & Wellness — rooted in testimony, dance, healing, community care, HIV/AIDS awareness, book outreach, teaching, and performance.

My book, Past Shame: Still Here — Undetectable & Untransmittable: A Miracle in Real Time, shares the deeper details of my journey and is available on Amazon and Kindle in English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and Italian.

Your support helps with travel, housing, workshops, performances, book outreach, community partnerships, and the continued growth of this work.

Ways to support: donate, share, purchase the book, sponsor books for the community, connect me with organizations, or partner through workshops, ads, logos, book talks, classes, or sponsorship.

Every prayer, donation, share, purchase, connection, and partnership helps me keep going.

I am alive.
I am still here.
And I am grateful.

Link in bio. by @fleedance

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