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Exclusive Profile:
Léa Levêque

“Dance teaches me
things that can’t be
taught.”
I remember seeing Lea dance. It was years ago during a recital
in Haiti.

The music came on, and the following second, she
was gone. She had been replaced by a fluid blur of rhythmic
movements, dazzling you. Of course, you noticed the other
dancers, but you could only focus on her - she was not
dancing: she was dance.

“I have this thing, where I’m in love with music. I don’t care
where I am, if the music comes on and I feel it in my soul. I
start to dance!”
Her mother noticed her “groove”, at a young age. Lea would
constantly dance around the house, at parties, or anywhere
she’d be.

“I’d lock myself in my room and practice. I’d come up with
new ways to move my body.”

She has carried her passion until now, bettering herself in her
studio: a firm believer in hard practice. She dances about 5
hours a day, and makes sure that she stays healthy with kale
smoothies, good carbs and the right amount of sleep. On
weekends, she clocks 12 to 14 hours.

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How does a highschooler balance her social life with these
rigorous hours?
Lea told ViV that dancing constantly teaches her about timemanagement, and discipline.

“It teaches me things that can’t be taught.”
Despite the fatigue, she never fails to make time for her
friends, who understand her commitment and support her
in her art. Finding joy and purity of expression in her world,
Lea believes that dance is still as relevant as ever. It serves as
entertainment, as expression, and as pure form of connection
from dancer to audience.
From a pigeon-toed, hunchback toddler to a true Haitian
dancing queen, Lea is finding her wings.