• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

SLA Media

SLAMedia is a publication of the news for the Science Leadership Academy community. Writers come from the student body in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. We work in unison to create a functioning paper with biweekly postings on a variety of events.

  • News
  • Features
  • Sports
  • A&E
  • Op/Ed
  • Multimedia
  • About

Students Dance at Art in the Open

May 23, 2012 by lpahomov Leave a Comment

English and History teacher Joshua Block teamed up with the Leah Stein Dance Company to teach 10th grade students how to interact with their environment in an innovative way ofdancing. Both Iron and Copper streams got to work directly with Leah Stein and three of her dancers. The program included introductory classes about dancing in peculiar environments and creating imaginative mindsets.

Two intensive weeks were spent with Stein learning, developing and creating dance pieces that were apart of the Art in the Open Festival.

Students had a choice to perform dance pieces at different locations the city, unlike previous years, where students were restricted to perform on the Schuykill River, where the bigger part of the festival is held. All performances were no more than a 5 minute walk from the school.

Students performed in alley ways, parking lots, and one group performed in the Mütter Museum garden.

Students who participated in the program experienced a different kind of learning: performing in different parts of the city and gaining a confidence in stage presence. – Deshawn McLeod, Staff Writer

Photos taken by Taylor Thomas, Douglas Herman and Isabela Supovitz-Aznar; Edited by Isabela Supovitz-Aznar

Filed Under: A&E, Uncategorized

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

* Copy This Password *

* Type Or Paste Password Here *

95,134 Spam Comments Blocked so far by Spam Free Wordpress

Primary Sidebar

FacebookInstagramTwitter Snapchat

Features

Wardrobe of SLA

By Harper Leary Staff Writer Philadelphia is a diverse city, and the student population of Science Leadership Academy reflects that fact— not just with their identities, but also with their fashion choices. If you walk down the hallways of SLA, your head will turn every which way to get a glimpse of all the different […]

How the Pandemic has Changed Live Events

By Maya Smelser & Anouk Ghosh-Poulshock Staff Writers Everyone remembers their first concert. But when the pandemic hit, many tours were canceled or rescheduled. There was a hiatus from live music as people adjusted to their new lives– so many teens missed out on their early concert experiences..  In the past few months, however, concerts […]

How Are SLA Students Are Dealing With Their Last Quarter?

Leticia Desouza Staff Writer After a long yet quick year at SLA, students from different grades have experienced many new things they weren’t able to experience during the 2020-2021 online academic year. After almost 10 months of being back in school, students have encountered difficulties and new experiences that further molded how the rest of […]

Philadelphia High Schools Now Starting At 9am

Lia Dunakin Staff Writer The School District of Philadelphia recently announced that all Philly high schools will start their instructional day at 9AM beginning in the 2022-2023 school year.  The reason given for this huge change is simply, sleep. Teenagers tend to get tired later  at night, and starting school at early hours can be […]

Shared Facilities: SLA, and Benjamin Franklin High School Encounters

Andre Doyle, Cameron Booker, & Leticia Desouza Staff Writers SLA and Ben Franklin began their co-location in the Fall of 2019 — but only this year have the two schools started to truly operate in the same space.  Not all of the facilities are used by both schools — most academic spaces are entirely separate. […]

Copyright © 2022 · Metro Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in