PAST WORK : video
GATE
2004
GATE is a site-specific performance project at the 11-acre 'stabilized ruin' of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia.
Izu House
2008
Collaboration with dancer/choreographer Leah Stein, Roko Kawai, musician Toshi Makihara, and Tokyo artists Hideo Arai and Mika Kimula on site at Izu House in Chihan-An, Ohito, Izu Peninsula, Japan.
Battle Hymns
2009
This co-commissioned score is performed by the Mendelssohn Club Chorus directed by Alan Harler with site-specific staging & choreography for singers & dancers by Leah Stein & music by composer David Lang.
Japan House
2010
LSDC at Shofuso - Japanese House & Garden, Philadelphia, September 2010. Collaboration with Tokyo artists Hideo Arai, Mika Kimula & longtime collaborators Roko Kawai & Toshi Makihara.
Other People's Children
2011
This collaboration with Germaine Ingram is part of The Spirits Break to Freedom, an ongoing performance project that reflects on the practice of slavery by George & Martha Washington while they resided in the President’s House, the nation’s first
“white house”, in Philadelphia.
Adjacent Spaces
2013
LSDC's Fringe Festival piece opening the second week of the festival, in rooms at The Shiloh Baptist Church on 21st and Christian St. in South Philly.
Splice
2014
Performed in collaboration with installation by Jeremy Holmes at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery Drexel University, Philadelphia
“white house”, in Philadelphia.
Bellows Falls
2015
This piece featured dancers Leah Stein and Jungwoong Kim and violinist Diane Monroe as they explored the full extent of the space, light, and sounds of the venue, an old industrial building converted into a dance studio.
Turbine
2015
A collaboration with Leah Stein Dance Company & the Mendelssohn Club Chorus under direction of Alan Harler & composer Byron Au Yong, at Fairmount Water Works Historic Site, Philadelphia
Portal
2016
Choreography & Direction by Leah Stein in collaboration with performers: Gail Caruso, Tina Caruso, Patricia Graham, David Konyk, Andrew Mars, Denise McKeon, Frauke Regan, Jonathan Stein, Megan Wilson Stern, Michele Tantoco, Suzanne Wright, Sheila Zagar
Portraits
2017
Performed at Woodmere Art Museum. Directed by Leah Stein in collaboration with dancers: Germaine Ingram, Jungwoong Kim, David Konyk, Megan Wilson Stern, Michele Tantoco & violinist Diane Monroe
SLA Residency
At the Science Leadership Academy High School in Philadelphia