Lelavision founders

Lelavision co-founders, Ela Lamblin and Leah Mann, began their collaborative efforts
in 1992 in Atlanta, GA , using original kinetic sculpture, live music, and dance
simultaneously in performance. In 1996 in Seattle, WA, they founded Lelavision, a professional touring company that has coined and perfected its own genre of performance, Physical Music. They present original performance works that cross all boundaries of appeal: race, education, language, religion, economic background, gender, and age.

Leah Mann – choreographer and co-director

Leah's work focuses on embodiment and somatic understanding for integrity and transformation. As a former competitive gymnast and with her degree in Health, Physical Education and Dance, she has utilized her kinetic, tactile and spacial learning style to reintegrate whole body practices into all her art actions - performing, teaching youth, facilitating social justice events, facilitating personal development workshops and producing events. Her work focuses on the common denominators of the human experience, the formation of community and healthy ecosystems, micro and macro.

In addition to being Co-Founder of Lelavision, Leah is the Director Emeritus and Co-Founder of the award-winning company, Moving in the Spirit - a dance, urban outreach , mentorship program in Atlanta, which has been thriving since 1987 and named one of the top 10 youth development organizations in the nation.

Ela Lamblin – sculptor, musician, co-director

When Ela was six years old his father made a deal with him: "I won't buy you any toys, but I'll help you make anything you want."  Thus, Ela was launched on a lifelong path of “making,” an attitude and lifestyle that was initiated by his off-the-grid home-schooled environment of his childhood in the mountains of Southern Oregon. 

In 1989, at the age of sixteen, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Atlanta College of Art.  He graduated with a BFA in sculpture in 1993. While at ACA Ela began experimenting with combining sound with form to create musical sculptures, a process that has resulted in more than forty large-scale musical instruments to date. From college onward, Ela's art has encompassed sculpture, music, film, and movement in live performance. Ela's artistic horizons continue to expand as he erases the lines between disciplines to create multi-faceted works that now include design and fabrication of public art, architectural design and planning, numerous recordings, short films and scores. 

In addition to Lelavision's performance work, Lamblin has received two commissions for permanent public sculpture – Whirl Piece (2006,Yesler Terrace Community Center, Seattle, WA) and Welcome to the Wheel World (2008, Beacon Hill International School, Seattle, WA). He has also produced five CDs of music on his invented musical sculptures, the first of which, Sculptaural, was recorded through Jack Straw's Artist Support Program (1996). Others include Raga to the River, classical Indian Raga in the Dhrupad tradition (2000), and Long Period Events, engineered by Grammy nominated record producer, Tucker Martine (2005). Lamblin received the Artist Fellowship in music from Artist Trust in 2004.

Jason Staczek

David Lynn

Tucker Martine

Teresa Morani

Shezad Morani

Michelle Bates

Christian Swenson

Eric Chapelle

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