Dancer Lauren Edson and musician Andrew Stensaas co-created and co-lead Boises LED, where dance and music are just two elements of numerous artistic adventures.
Partners in life, love and art, dancer/choreographer Lauren Edson and musician/composer Andrew Stensaas founded the remarkable performance company LED in Boise, ID in 2015 and remain its co-leadersLauren, the company\u2019s artistic director, trained at UNCSA and Juilliard before dancing with the renowned dance company Trey McIntyre Projects for many years. Andrew, LED\u2019s creative director, is a self-taught musician and composer who played with two critically acclaimed bands \u2014 one in Portland, OR; the other in Boise, ID \u2014 before establishing himself as a teacher and composer/songwriter at Boise Rock School. Just five years after LED\u2019s founding, Dance Magazine included the company in its influential \u201c25 to Watch\u201d list, but it wouldn\u2019t be accurate to call LED a dance company. Instead, what Lauren and Andrew have created is a creative laboratory that accommodates each their artistic backgrounds and interests and challenges them to keep exploring, whether through live performance, film or community happenings and always with movement and music at the core. LED has performed in venues all over the Western US, and their most recent short film, \u201cWaters into Wilderness,\u201d screened at festivals all over the world including the prestigious San Francisco Dance Film Festival. In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Lauren and Edson discuss how their distinct artistic personalities combined with their dedicated partnership to create the special sauce that keeps their young company nimble, inventive and exciting to the creative team and their audiences alike.https://www.ledboise.com/