Leah Stein Dance Company

10/09/2024

Join 2024 REAP artist Kimya Imani Jackson for a multimedia workshop "Love Letter to Gas Stations: a collage"on Sunday October 20th from 11am-1pm.

Full workshop description, accessibility info and RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/events/1028082641857/details

Workshop Description: Public space. Private space. Gas stations exist in both spaces simultaneously while also being a place that all of us will pass through at least once in our lifetime. This 3-hour workshop will explore our experiences/stories at gas stations. A mashup of movement exercises, questions, photos, sounds, discussion, and snack breaks will guide us in creating our collage. Open to adults at all levels of movement experience.

About Kimya Imani Jackson: I am a dancer, creator, clown and Ph.D. trained Biobehavioral Health scientist. I work in these mediums because I am excited by the extraordinary nature of ordinary things. I believe that magical things are happening every day if one just pays attention.

About REAP: Residency for Emerging Artists Project (REAP) is an artist-centered and self-led residency typically spanning from three months to one-year for 2-3 local artists in Philadelphia working across dance, music, theater, and performance. The length of each artist's residency is decided by REAP artists at preliminary meetings with LSDC’s team. Artists are offered unlimited FREE studio space at The Art Room Studio, 10-hours of mentorship from an artist of their choice, and administrative support for a culminating event. There is no requirement for artists to execute a project within any set parameters, however, artists have the opportunity to share work in a culminating event in any form/format that supports their work (private/public showing, workshop, etc).

08/09/2024

STUDIO WORKS ⎯ AUGUST 24th 2024 at 7:30pm

Featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists Leigh Huster, Patricia Graham, and Ray Toy.

The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.

Full program and accessibility information at: leahsteindanceco.org/studioworksaugust2024

Leigh Huster: What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale. Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting the damage to our ecosystems. This outdoor, immersive dance performance attempts to restore our relationship with our local ecosystems through tapping into the radical present through a combination of performance and somatic practice.

Ray Toy will lead the audience on a peripatetic journey powered by love, irony, and humor.

Patricia Graham: neurobox reshuffle, an immersive video experience.

07/08/2024

Radiating in memories from our 2024 Studio Works series! Here are a few of our favorite moments from this past January’s Studio Works with artists (gen)ise paige deal and Mikah Simone, with Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet.

Enjoy a night of experiments in performance at our NEXT STUDIO WORKS this AUGUST 24th with local artists Leigh Huster, Ray Toy, and Patricia Graham.

August 24th 7:30pm
The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.

05/29/2024

Join us at our 2024 Spring STUDIO WORKS on June 1st! Featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists Vyette Tiya, Miryam Coppersmith, and Aubrey Donisch with Shana Crawford.

JUNE 1 ⎯ 8pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artist are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Vyette Tiya:
“building a house for a home” explores what it means to seek steady ground. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, this piece considers recollection, displacement, lineage, and homemaking – a calling back to move forward.
Featured collaborator: Daniel Sohn ( ).

Miryam Coppersmith:
“I’m taking up so much space I’m excreting it.” This work in progress explores themes of abundance and scarcity in our individual lives, communities, and ecosystems. Whenever I approach clarity of what abundance might look like for me personally, I snag when I consider how my wildest hopes or dreams would affect the environment or communities around me. How could we actually navigate personal and collective abundance? And what is that, past the buzzwords, anyway? This ensemble of artists has been exploring these questions through discussion, movement, and play in space.
Featured. collaborators: Kimya Imani Jackson, Shannon Brooks, and Leigh Huster

Aubrey Donisch and Shana Crawford:
We are figuring out the Echosystem. This is: A duet that exists in phases. A duet that transposes space. A duet that transmits the energy. A duet that acts as the carbon. A duet that is built from and for more than just us.

Full program and accessibility information at https://buff.ly/3X1vfin

05/15/2024

FILM WORKS continues MAY 18 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
full program and accessibility details at: https://buff.ly/4bv2YVs

Featuring films/videos from artists :
• Dis Place : Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action
• Everyday : Megan Mizanty
• Colonizers : Irina Varina
• Red Shadow : Leslie Bush
• Stockton, SU 21 : Camille Rennie, CoCa Company of Collaborative Artists

Curated in collaboration with Keila Cordova, we invite you to gather with us this Saturday May 18th for an interactive, creative exchange at our final screening in the series.

FILM WORKS is a three-part screening series celebrating films and videos by (mostly) local, dance/performance artists experimenting with movement, sound and the body.

05/08/2024

FILM WORKS continues MAY 11 at 7pm with a virtual ZOOM screening ! RSVP for zoom link and read full program details: https://buff.ly/3URt5jN

Featuring films/videos from artists :

• | community | ⎯ Loren McFalls ⎯ ".. a feeling of interpersonal connection with others, as a result of sharing attitudes, interests, goals, or experiences. This film explores community and the movements of interpersonal connection."

• Cistern; After Murakami ⎯ Christy Walsh ⎯ "... The dance is both an investigation of physical surfaces and a contemplation of the nature of space and time. The recorded passage of chronological time in the dark cistern seems to pass very slowly, even though there is little of it. On the beach, where most of the action takes place, the sense of time is condensed because of the relative sense of freedom..."

• Cognatus ⎯ Britt Fishel and Artists ⎯ "... investigates ecofeminism and the patriarchal mechanisms that assimilate women and nature. Both often devalued and exploited, seeking elevation and liberation, the relationship between them is a rhizome of interconnections. Radical ecofeminism celebrates the relationship between women and nature through the revival of ancient rituals, creating a source of inspiration and empowerment..."

• Penumbra ⎯ Amber Hongsermeier ⎯ "Penumbra" is an embodied exploration of integrating the shadow self using archetypes in astrology and tarot. Important archetypes used for movement generation were the dance artist's Cancer Sun sign and the Four of Swords card that was pulled multiple times throughout the creative process."

• The Sound of Sinking Ships ⎯ Oona Taper ⎯ "Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order- explored through movement, music, video and film. The Sound of Sinking Ships is a dance improvisation documented in film, video, and animation..."

Curated in collaboration with Keila Cordova, we invite you to gather with us this Saturday May 11th for an interactive, creative exchange at our second screening in the series - this time virtual! RSVP today to join us!

FILM WORKS is a three-part screening series celebrating films and videos by (mostly) local, dance/performance artists experimenting with movement, sound and the body.

04/11/2024

Join us this Spring 2024 online and in person for FILM WORKS.

FILM WORKS is a three-part screening series celebrating films and videos by artists connected to Philadelphia experimenting with movement and the body.

Curated with Keila Cordova.

Read the full program and RSVP: leahsteindanceco.org/filmworks

→ April 21th • 7pm • The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
Britt Fishel and Artists �Saskia Globig �Ella-Gabe Mason�Julia Bryck, Kayla Bobalek, & Maddie Hopfield�Rose Luardo and Emmett Wilson
Meredith Rainey �Propelled Animals�
→ May 11th • 7pm • Zoom
Loren McFalls �Oona Taper�Christy Walsh�Amber Hongsermeier

→ May 18th • 7pm • The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action
Megan Mizanty�Irina Varina
Leslie Bush

01/20/2024

STUDIO WORKS with artists Mikah Simone, gen deal and their collaborators is TONIGHT 1/20 - 7pm at The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st 2nd fl).

Bundle up, please wear a mask and travel safely in the weather! Full program and accessibility details at:

We look forward to connecting with you!

Join us in person January 20th for an evening of experiments in altar-making, breath, movement, and moment featuring local artists Mikah Simone, with Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet, and (gen)ise paige deal, with the sound museum collective. 

01/19/2024

We are completely inspired by the creative care and curation brought into The Art Room Studio and to STUDIO WORKS by gen deal! Get an exclusive look and experience into gen’s practice/process as a florist, writer, musician, performing artist, curator, etc + at STUDIO WORKS – JAN 20th - 7pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Through facilitating the stretch club at The Art Room Studio gen has explored different ideas about the smallest parts of ourselves creating and wants to share that process by demonstrating a stretch, reciting treatments for future projects, and a small arrangement that will turn into an instillation for gen's curated floral music show installation January 21st, a part of a collaboration with Sound Museum Collective.

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please wear a mask!

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE !
Join gen in collaboration with the sound museum collective irl at The Art Room Studio or online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysSTMR-G4g on Jan 21st from 1-6pm for PHILA FLORADORA a glorious floral music video wonder featuring live performances from brittle brian, andy loebs, kator nzingha, gavin oswald and a’jon.

01/11/2024

alt •a•e• r
is a work in progress that embodies our best selves! Or rather, our other selves, the ones you see, the ones we want you to see! It is a phone call to the ancestors and family that made us who we are now…who are we now?

We are honored to be-holding the practice of Mikah Simone, with collaborators With Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet at STUDIO WORKS – JAN 20th - 7pm @ The Art Room Studio! Learn more about Mikah Simone, the full program, and accessibility details at: https://www.leahsteindanceco.org/studio-works-jan-2024

Mikah Simone is a Jewish-Egyptian-American dance artist who is fascinated by the memories and queerness their body holds. With Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet, the three explore how resistance, conversation, food, parties, and love encapsulate all the bodies they hold together.

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete control of how and what they share.