About the Artist

Leah Stein
Bio

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 throughout the region, nationally and internationally in train garages, open fields, vacant city lots, gardens, burial grounds and numerous historic sites. A 2018 Pew Fellow, Leah has received numerous grants and awards including a 2019 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, practice and performance.

Toshi Makihara Bio

Toshi Makihara studied drums, percussion and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the United States, he has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies internationally. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists, filmmakers and performance artists widely. Since the fall of 2000, Makihara has been focusing on three separate performing styles: 1. New Jazz performances on a conventional drum-set, 2. music for theater and dance using a variety of percussion and discovered sound media, and 3. the experimental free improvisation using a simple setting consisting of one snare drum and one small cymbal. Makihara's recordings include Grammy nominated "Another Shining Path" (1998 Drimala Records) in trio with Gary Hassay (alto saxophone) and William Parker (bass), and "Hurricane Floyd" (Spring 2000, Sublingual Records) in trio with Thurston Moore (guitar) and Wally Shoup (alto sax). He received Pew Fellowship in 2013.

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