Summer Performance Series
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

Leah Stein Dance Company performs Of Grass and Gravel under the trees at The Schuylkill Center's stone pavilion.

Tickets available at the door only, starting 30 minutes before the performance.
$10 general admission
$5 for members/students/seniors

The Schuylkill Center
8480 Hagy's Mill Road
Philadelphia, PA 19128
215-482-7300
www.schuylkillcenter.org

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.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, June 16
In 'Battle Hymn,' choreography, chorus combine to heroic effect
by David Patrick Stearns
"Lang's score is a marvel even by his increasingly high standard. Stein's choreography consistently underscored the music's power. The inevitable what-did-it-all-add-up-to question had the right open-ended answers"
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Philadelphia Inquirer, June 16
At Armory, a massive song/dance maneuver
by Merilyn Jackson
"Inside the Armory of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry on the prosaic block of 23d Street just below Market, art, architecture, and nature collided Saturday in near-mystical blasts as choreographer Leah Stein and Mendelssohn Club music director Alan Harler mustered their forces for composer David Lang's Battle Hymns."
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Photos by JJ. Tiziou
www.jjtiziou.net

Leah 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.