CHI Artists Summer Workshops - Leah Stein

LEAH STEIN grew up in the Hudson Valley in New York State. She is a dancer, choreographer and teacher who has been making site-inspired dances for 20 years.  She received a BA from Wesleyan University in dance and anthropology. In 2001, she formed the Leah Stein Dance Company and whose site-specific dances have been performed internationally and throughout the United States, in train garages, open fields, corner parking lots, vacant city lots, historic sites, gardens and burial grounds.  Her choreography refers to particular landscapes and addresses the relationship between people and their physical surroundings. Building on a background of western dance, she has trained in improvisation, Javanese dance, Aikido and contemporary dance techniques. She received a 2010 Independence Foundation Fellowship and three Pennsylvania on the Arts Fellowships for Choreography. In 2001, she won a Herald Angel Award for her dance In Situ in Edinburgh, Scotland. She teaches at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.  

Class description:

Whole Body Dancing

This class will focus on both subtle and full body awareness through the learning of phrases and improvisations that awaken and activate the body/mind. 

With attention to breathe, alignment, inter-connection in the body as well as speed, rhythm, timing, this class will give students an opportunity to find new articulations, responsiveness, dimensionality and aliveness in their dancing.