Articles

The Art of the Subtle Reveal

The simplicity of their movement has a beautifully muffled quality; hushed and gentle, like snow.
June 2, 2017
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Through the Café Glass: Leah Stein’s Portal

Stein’s dancers were joined by eight community performers of various ages and backgrounds, a fine choice for Frieda's Café.
September 16, 2016
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Dance as Medium: a turning of the bones

Bellows Falls allows story to arise from the concrete poetics of space.
June 17, 2016
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Listening for Histories

Stein’s crew raise and reground curving mahogany pews. I see the work of establishing and resettling a congregation, cultural shifts in urban America.
September 15, 2013
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Spirits in an Industrial Space

The weightedness of bodies in 'Hoist,' either in motion or at rest, was the strongest metaphorical connection to an industrial past of physical labor and heavy machinery.
September 25, 2012
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Breaking, Beats, and Cross-Rhythms

This making in the moment is not winging it, but two masters of movement developing a fully formed idea in front of an audience.
June 18, 2012
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Contemplative and Connected: Leah Stein’s Singular Aesthetic

Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.
March 16, 2012
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A Lily Lilies: Leah Stein, Josey Foo and the Desert of Page

This book reads like an invitation to inhabit the in-between spaces of the world: places where words may have bodies...
March 8, 2012
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