LSDC is on the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour roster.

Concurrent with the large scale site-work Battle Hymns (2009), LSDC began a new partnership with Science Leadership Academy where through on-site workshops students learned the skills for creating site-specific performance. The students initiated their own site-specific festival with 15 original short works eagerly performed on a rainy Friday. You can watch a video of the students' work at What Kids Can Do. LSDC will return to Science Leadership Academy this Spring 2010 to continue the partnership.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25th at 7pm
SUNDAY, MARCH 28th at 2pm

Join LSDC for the film screening of GATE by Anastacia Wilde at the Little Theater in Mt Airy, Philadelphia. Featuring the documentary of the 2007 On Site Philadelphia production at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site. The documentary was supported in part by Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Marketing Initiative. Enjoy food, drinks, and conversation with the artists while supporting LSDC!

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MAY 1st & 2nd at 5pm

LSDC performs a new site work at Historic RittenhouseTown with local community participation 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. This special project is supported in part by Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

LSDC will create with long-time collaborators percussionist Toshi Makihara and dancer/choreographer Roko Kawai and new collaborative partners dancer Hideo Arai and singer Mika Kimula a site-specific dance at Shofuso, the Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park. This project builds upon a collaboration begun in 2007 and 2008 when Leah Stein travelled to Japan to work in a 200-year-old traditional home located two hours south of Tokyo on the Izu Peninsula.

Consider making a contribution to Leah Stein Dance Company.

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.

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.