Leah Stein
Dancer, choreographer, educator Leah Stein creates collaborative site-specific performance projects including large choral dance works as well as intimate small-scale movement works. An avid improviser, she founded Leah Stein Dance Company in 2001 in Philadelphia where her site-specific dances have been performed nationally and internationally in train garages, open fields, vacant city lots, gardens, burial grounds and numerous historic sites. In 2019, Leah received a MacDowell Fellowship supporting her ongoing collaborations with composers, musicians and poets. Leah engaged in a yearlong research project with legendary composer Pauline Oliveros to develop Pauline’s Deep Listening practice with singers and dancers. This research is the foundation of Leah’s current teaching.
