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frantically at peace
mfa dance @osudance
instructor @purebarrecolumbuspolaris
columbus, oh 🌈

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back from (yet another) posting hiatus :’)

moving into my 25th year feeling especially thankful for my love, our home, my friends, my family, my work. just a little random glimpse. 🫶 by @mlepierce

Night 2 of TECH rehearsal is done, onto the show! See it Sat Nov 22 at 8pm and Sun Nov 23 at 3pm. Tickets on sale now, link in the bio!

Thanks to @leigh_alicia @elliebdance @mlepierce @lilybellah @bossl8dy_1908 @grace.glow @columbusdancetheatre @artmakescbus

#dance #choreography #moderndance #614dance #citydancecbus #614artists #contemporarydance #danceincolumbus #choreographer #artmakescbus #fyp #reels #performingarts #columbus by @mlepierce

some behind-the-scenes shots from shoot day for @bluehouseproco & @morgansandlinn 📸✨

super super grateful to have captured some magic by my friends & colleagues :’)

dancers: @kayleephipps @emma_clinton32 @jack_federinko @conner_trip @meghan.lensmeyer @morganmarie_dancer @lilybellah @allierenae__ @liv.barner @oliviajo02 @abbyj.wo

costumes: @emmadebski

filmed at @thefort614 by @mlepierce

POV: Your poppi is your stylist 🍓✨

can’t get enough of you!!! @drinkpoppi

🪩🕺: @abbyj.wo @allierenae__ @conner_trip @lilybellah @kayleephipps @emma_clinton32 @oliviajo02 @liv.barner @meghan.lensmeyer @jack_federinko @morganmarie_dancer

📸: @mlepierce
👗: @emmadebski by @mlepierce

not-so-chronological 2025 so-far recap:
- thought a lot about cats
- thought even more about dance (and how much i love my friends)
- saw lots of good sunrises and snow and even earlier mornings (come take my wednesday 6am or let me make u a latte pls)
- started to savor lizard time even more so
- danced, danced, and danced even more
- turned 24 (even got to dance on that day too)
- made dance with my favorite duet partner ever
- post-it note is self-explanatory
- documented some fits, some moments, some fun
- smooched
- remembered i am an artist (and danced even more)

continuing on, loving this life, loving my people, loving my work 🫶 by @mlepierce

coming out of my posting hiatus (hi instagram) - enjoy the random photo dump of things from the past year
new home new job(s) new friends new things new joys
going between “goddamn i love this life” to “what a rush!” to “i’m just here, man”
getting to come back to dance after a year away has been the biggest blessing i could have asked for. feeling extra extra thankful and so so so loved while reconnecting with/remembering what it all feels like. take chances, friends.
that’s all for now, until next post (probably in a year, who knows)
(i don’t own rights to sound in third slide) by @mlepierce

hi summer!! bye summer!! by @mlepierce

BFA, Dance Performance & Choreography
Certificate, Diversity Studies
Submitted, Undergrad Thesis

memories to last a lifetime. so incredibly blessed to have been on this ride with so many, thank you all :’)
“pierce on headset, signing off” by @mlepierce

what a ride :’) nyc photo dump 🍎
1 - ode to so much good food this weekend
2/3 - times square & hell’s kitchen
4 - choreo by AntBoogie !!
5 - emil took a heels class??
6 - choreo by Courtney Sauls !!
7 - industry
8 - post-industry
9 - family photo ❤️
10 - “Plastic Jesus” by Tia Blake by @mlepierce

march dump - 2/3

last acda :’)
honored to have performed my solo, you would let loose your longing, during the informal showing! forever grateful to be on stage one last time and find time for backstage shenanigans by @mlepierce

march dump - 1/3

loooong overdue post, but my evening-length work, what does this mean for Us?, premiered this past month after a postponement. thankful thankful thankful for everyone involved. still feeling all the things :’)

photography in slides 1, 4-5 by @katfrazier25 by @mlepierce

TAKE 2 🎬

it’s happening!! for real this time!! come see 7 incredible dancers take the space at The Ridges Auditorium. they’ve been on this long and winding road with me since August, and am forever thankful for their willingness and dedication :’)💜

more gigantic thank you’s to Dr. Tresa Randall for her mentorship and advising of this project, John Bohuslawsky for his mentorship, Melissa Levine for incredible mind-blowing dramaturgy, Marrisha Devereueawax-Coates for costume shop aid, the Honors Tutorial College for generously funding this project, the Power Rangers, and dear friends & classmates for volunteering their time to help make this show all it can be 💜

what does this mean for Us?
3 & 4 March, 2023 - 7:30pm
The Ridges Auditorium
free admission :) by @mlepierce