Michael Leslie is an Indigenous Australian dancer and choreographer.[1]
Leslie was part of a team which created the following organisations:[2] the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts;[3] the Black Swan Theatre Company;[4] Marrugeku Physical Theatre; and the NAISDA Dance College. He also created the Michael Leslie Pilbara Performing Arts Program to expose local children to the performing arts.[5]
In 1993, he choreographed the first Aboriginal Australian musical, Bran Nue Dae.[6]
In 2018, he performed at the Ochre Contemporary Dance Company's Australian Premiere Season of 3 point 3.[7]
In 1979 Leslie was awarded the Churchill Fellowship to further his studies,[8] which he used in 1981.[9]
In 2010[10] he received the Red Ochre Award from the Australia Council for the Arts, receiving A$50,000.[11]
