LOVE is an orchestral music video that uses the power of dance and artful cinematography to craft a visually vibrant and emotionally compelling refutation of dehumanization.
Through the concentric storytelling media of music, movement, and image, LOVE, as the title suggests, will deliver a searingly beautiful and powerful depiction of this universal and complex emotion as it resides, moves through, and is expressed in the body. Taking inspiration from the vibrant aesthetics and powerful themes of artist, Kehinde Wiley's work that reorients images of power and poise to Black figures, this film will cast a large ensemble of professional dancers, all from traditionally marginalized and historically oppressed populations. With a specially commissioned score that is sweeping and cinematic, and with visceral choreography that translates across language, culture, and class differences, LOVE will invoke the universal, embodied experience of loving with visual vibrancy and magnetic vigor. Choreographed and directed by the Peabody-award winning producer/dancer/educator, Rosalynde LeBlanc, this short film is intended to be simple, direct, and accessible at face value, while suggesting more critical examination of our subliminal images of love and who loves. The first step on the path to ideological dehumanization is to assume certain people don't have the ability to form deep, loving bonds. They do not feel as deeply as I do, therefore I cannot share their suffering. This idea that certain groups of people have a lesser capacity to feel is a simple equation with lethal effect. From political polarization to mass roundups to systematic genocide, the belief that the other side is absent of feeling frames the logic of detachment and the builds the capacity to terrorize. Inspired by the deepening polarization and rising race-based persecution in our contemporary moment, LOVE will exist as an artful, beautiful, and disarming counterargument to dehumanization, the first salvo of injustice.
Rosalynde LeBlanc is a Peabody Award winning producer, dancer, choreographer, and educator. She has been actively performing for 30 years, beginning her performance career with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. Recent leading roles for stage and screen include light and desire by Colleen Thomas, A Torch into Fog by Janessa Clark, Exploration of Feminine Range by Charissa Kroeger, and KIARI album-release promo for the rapper Offset. She recently choreographed the multimedia, evening-length work Womanland as part of L.A. Dance Project’s LAUNCH L.A. 2025. Roz also produced and co-directed the Peabody award winning documentary Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters. She is an honorary inductee in the Jesuit honor society, Alpha Sigma Nu and a recipient of the 2025 Exemplary Women in Dance in L.A. award. Roz is a professor at Loyola Marymount University and chaired the dance program from 2019-2025. She holds dance degrees from SUNY Purchase (BFA) and Hollins University (MFA). She is represented by Bloc L.A.
