Diana Barrios has been the Artistic Director of Leverage Dance Theater since it emerged from the company’s previous structure and identity, Atrek Dance Collective. She has been producing, presenting, performing, choreographing and teaching dance for almost 20 years in the St. Louis area.

Leverage Dance Theater is a St. Louis based dance company in residence at the Intersect Arts Center in the Cherokee Street neighborhood. Leverage makes and presents work in non-traditional environments and in non-traditional ways to build new audiences and promote development and accessibility in the field of local dance.