in collaboration, in connection with the moment.
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WE DID IT!
THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who helped us meet our goal! Thanks to all your support, we have raised $50,000 to match a grant from the William Penn Foundation. Your support helps us keep making and sharing dances into our second decade!
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LSDC at Science Leadership Academy!
During the two-week residency with 60 Tenth graders, LSDC works with the students to create and perform their own site-specific pieces incorporating movement, sound and site. Its amazing to witness the students go from nervous and hesitant about the idea to jumping in wholeheartedly and taking full ownership for their creative process. Its truly inspiring!
STUDENTS PERFORMANCES FRIDAY MAY 18, 1pm-3pm as part of the city wide festival Art in the Open.
For complete listing of locations and times please visit: Science Leadership Academy
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Summer Workshops with Leah Stein
July 16-20 and July 23-27, 2012
Leah Stein teaches this summer at CHI Movement Art Center, the home of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers. Register early at Dance Box Office.
LOCATION
CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
267-687-3739
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Book Launch — A Lily Lillies
A Lily Lilies is the product of an 8-year collaboration between poet Josey Foo and Leah Stein, and is a cross-genre book of poetry, photography, and notes for choreography. It maps space through language, language through movement, and both space and movement through pictures in sections that move from immense spaces of the American Southwest to a dance stage in Philadelphia to the space of the self.
Mapping across space/time, cultures and sensibilities A Lily Lilies expresses the interweaving of the poetry of dance and the dance of poetry. Beautiful work!—Pauline Oliveros
What Josey Foo and Leah Stein have created here is a dramaturg's delight — poetry and movement on the page, with hints for the stage, and sound poems that may live only in the reader's mind. Foo's poems and Stein's responses become layered experiences in the synergy between the two artists. In their introduction they state that "Words and music contain pace and rhythm for movement in both illusionary and physical space." Let us now witness the grace of poetic imagery and the elegance of dance in words. Poetic images and stage images and stage directions and more morph and mingle into a sweet work of art.—Martha Wade Steketee
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Audience Engagement Platform
Dance with Leah Stein on site
Come join Leah Stein to dance outside, in a beautiful setting, and create a site-specific performance. This energizing, creative, collaborative opportunity will take you inside choreographer Leah Stein's process. We will work with movement, sound and location to create a dance inspired by the site. Join us for this intensive two-day workshop for an in-depth exploration of dancing on site.
Visit our AEP event website for more information
Create a Site-Specific Dance with Leah Stein to Commemorate an Important Moment!
Make your group event or celebration unique. Leah Stein Dance Company will create a site-specific dance for your special event -- personal gathering, fundraisers, historic sites, and other significant occasions.
Visit our AEP event website for more information
Leah Stein Dance Company with collaborators dancer/choreographer Roko Kawai, percussionist Toshi Makihara and, from Tokyo, performance artist Hideo Arai and vocalist Mika Kimula created a journey through Shofuso Japanese House and Garden for the Philly Fringe. Japan House/Philadelphia had 4 sold out performances and beautiful fall weather.
Leah Stein Dance Company and Science Leadership Academy presented student and LSDC site-work along the Schuylkill River Park as part of Art in the Open (AiO). This project marked LSDC's second annual residency with the Science Leadership Academy.
See photos of the students' work.
LSDC performed Mill Tones on the lush grounds of Historic RittenhouseTown on May Day weekend. The site-specific piece included community members and students from Summit Church's after-school program. Historic RittenhouseTown was originally settled in 1690 and operated as the first papermaking mill in America on the wooded banks of Wissahickon creek. This special project was supported in part by the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels Fund and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
LSDC premiered the film GATE by Anastacia Wilde at the Little Theater in Mt Airy, Philadelphia. The documentary chronicles the choreographic process of the 2007 On Site Philadelphia production at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site.
THANK YOU to local businesses and individuals for their generous donations:
Tiffin Indian Cuisine, Night Kitchen, Little Herban Spa, Rothe Florists, Infusion Cafe, Trolley Car Diner; Eastern State Penitentiary; Marjory Levitt, Amy Hirsch, David Konyk, Terry Fox, and Deenah Loeb
Leah Stein Dance Company returned to Susan Hess Modern Dance Studio, where Leah Stein began her Philadelphia career, to present an introspective concert of dance. The evening featured excerpts of Battle Hymns (2009), new improvisational scores, and video footage of Departure (1993) and Bardo (2005).
Leah Stein Dance Company performed Of Grass and Gravel under the trees at The Schuylkill Center's stone pavilion.
Marking their third collaboration, Leah Stein and Alan Harler teamed up again to present Battle Hymns at the 23rd Street Armory in Center City Philadelphia. Battle Hymns combined the historic resonance of the armory with Leah Stein's site-specific choreography for singers and dancers with a co-commissioned score by Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang, performed by the Mendelssohn Club Chorus. Over 90 performers - singers, dancers, and percussionists performed to sold-out audiences.
READ OUR REVIEWSLeah Stein returned to Japan for IZU HOUSE: Part 2 with movement artist Roko Kawai in collaboration with Hideo Arai, Toshi Makihara and Mika Kimula. Watch video and read the blog from the project at Chichan Art Project.
Urban Echo: Circle Told premiered at the 2008 Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia, a successful collaboration with composer Pauline Oliveros and Mendelssohn Club Chorus. See photos by J.J. Tiziou at Flickr.
GATE at the Eastern State Penitentiary
Read a review of GATE from the Broad Street Review.
Now Available! The documentary and video of GATE by filmmaker Anastacia Wilde.