BIO
Leah is an artist based in NYC working with photography, performance, and art design for theater. Originally trained as a dancer, she graduated from the University of Washington with the 2007 Dean’s Medal in the Arts. She curates the arts section of Between the Frog and the Conch, a monthly series presented by The Home Of in Brooklyn, and and is on staff at the Performance Club NYC. For inquiries on current projects or to get on her mailing list please email me@leahschrager.com.
CV
(Selections from CV are below. Please email for full CV.)
ART
Pretty | Whatever at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle 2010 (solo show)
Whiskey at McLoughlin’s Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan 2010 (solo show)
On the Grid at Camel Art Space, NYC 2010 (group show)
Hooper St at Bipolart, NYC 2010 (group show)
PERFORMANCE
Live After Birth: a Situation in Two Parts with the Fantastic Nobodies at the Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC 2011
Smoke The New Cigarrette at the Bowery Poetry Club 2011
Lasagna, or: How I learned to stop slipping towards the prison of permanent darkness by Linas Philips with Jim Fletcher at On The Boards, Seattle, 2009
About Neil produced by the Mekka Collective at The Producers Club, NYC 2009
Ghost Seige at the Socrates Sculpture Park with Andrea Stanislav and Kenny Aaronoff 2009
Firecracker at the Hammersetein Ballroom with the Fantastic Nobodies 2009
Floor of the Forest by Trisha Brown at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle 2007
THEATRICAL DESIGN
Be Story Free for Inverse Theater at the Ohio Theater NYC 2011
It Was A Setup for Inverse Theater at The Home Of, NYC 2010
Cycatrix for Inverse Theater in various lofts in NYC 2009
Getting Undressed at the University of Washington 2007
DANCE
Get Me Out of Here by Yin Yue Dance at Dance Theater Workshop, Duo Theater, Tisch, NYC 2009
Raw Rough Ready by Catherine Slusher in Köln & Wiesbaden, Germany 2008
Danced in works by Zvi Gotheiner, Laura Dean, Martha Graham, Dore Hoyer, Alwin Nikolais, José Limón, and Charles Weidman for the Chamber Dance Company, Seattle 2005-7
PRESS
“Brooklyn’s Finest Experimentalists” – Time Out NY on the crew of Be Story Free
“Experiences like I had last night at It Was a Set Up are the whole reason I moved to New York” – Trav S.D.
“When I first saw some of the images in Pretty | Whatever, what most struck me was their similarity to the randomness of Facebook news feeds, with the mixture of inane and emotional, random and sentimental all jumbled up together.” Jeremy Barker, The Sun Break, “Dancer & Artist Brings her Picture Poems to CoCA this week”
“Leah Schrager’s choreography is a panoply of graceful violence.” - Leonard Jacobs, editor Backstage – on Remission
“Marvelous, maddening, dizzying…one of the most adroit, fully present ensembles I can remember seeing.” – Claudia La Rocco, WNYC – on Cycatrix Adaptitude
“Perhaps one of the most interesting is the dramatic, kinetic mix of video and live theater…He is able to pull off this feat largely because of the physical talents of dancer/collaborator Leah Schrager who is able to flawlessly make us believe that she is the body to a large, video head.” – S. Chiro, OtB blog on Lasagna
“Leah Schrager’s dancing was beautiful and brought a color to this drab world.” – S.Farhood, OtB blog on Lasagna
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