Leah Cox

Leah Cox is a dancer and maker. In her most recent performance project, titled "Group Therapy," she pretends to be an Experiential Experimental Dance Therapy Theatre Therapist. Made in collaboration with George Staib and Kristen Osborn, the piece most recently toured to the American Dance Festival. Cox is also the creator of the Failure Collective, an interdisciplinary, intergenerational workshop that explores the creative possibilities that arise when we embrace failure and work in unfamiliar contexts. She danced in Liz Lerman's "Wicked Bodies", was Dean of the American Dance Festival (2015-2022), and worked with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company for 14 years (2001-2015), first as a company dancer and subsequently as the Company’s first education director. She lives in Austin with her husband and two children.

What do you enjoy most about being a part of the UT Theatre and Dance community?

My colleagues. They're wildly human, creative and often quite funny. They make work feel a little more like play.

What is your favorite thing about Austin?

Tacos, knowing I'm within a 2-hour drive of Willie Nelson and overhearing people debate whether Austin is still "weird." It reminds me of living in NYC and hearing people complain about how New York is no longer "what it used to be."

Headshot taken by Jim Lafferty.

Contemporary Dance 

Graduate Choreography, Contemporary Dance Technique, Choreography I

Group Therapy, created by Leah Cox & George Staib, performed by Leah Cox.

Wicked Bodies, created by Liz Lerman, performed by an ensemble cast including Leah Cox.