Biography
marco farroni leonardo (b. 1995) is a Dominican interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle, Washington, whose practice spans dance, performance, oral history, and mixed media. They hold a BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts (2017). Grounded in embodied research and community-based stories, marco’s work explores themes of home, the body as an archive, the Black diaspora, and memory.
Their work has been presented at numerous cultural and performance venues across Seattle, including Velocity Dance Center, Wa Na Wari, Base Arts Space, 10 Degrees Arts, Spectrum Dance Theater, The AIDS Memorial Pathway, River, and 12th Ave Arts.
marco is a recipient of the Artist at the Center Residency 2025, as well as a member of Black Collectivity and the second cohort of Wa Na Wari’s Seattle Black Spatial History Institute.