JON LEHRER DANCE COMPANY

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  • The Company
    • About
    • Mission and Vision
    • Repertory >
      • A Ritual Dynamic
      • Bridge and Tunnel
      • Cash or Check?
      • Chukchi
      • Femeie de Lume
      • Fused by 8
      • Here In This Eden
      • Instinct
      • La Follia
      • Loose Canon
      • Murmur
      • Pantheon Rising
      • Pulp
      • Sirenic
      • Solstice
      • Stand
      • Sum of Us
      • SuperZeroes
      • The Alliance
      • Through The Storm
      • Troika
    • Jon Lehrer >
      • Bio
      • Teaching & Choreography
    • Cristiana Cavallo
    • Dancers
    • Company Auditions
    • Board of Directors
  • Performances
  • Media
    • JLDC Tour VLOG >
      • NYC Spring Performance 2023
      • Florida Tour Vlog 2022
      • ALL TOUR VLOGS
    • Videos
    • Photos >
      • Performance Photos
      • NYC Photos
      • Studio Photos
  • Reviews
    • Press Quotes
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JLDC Repertory

Jon Lehrer creates 1-2 new works per year, keeping the repertory fresh and evolving!
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Photo by Jack Hartin
A Ritual Dynamic
The work that started it all! “A Ritual Dynamic” was the very first company piece, created to define Jon's signature style.

​2007

Music: Hovannes K, DJ Disse
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Dancers - 8
TRT - 10:00


"Surprise landings and tableaux that sliced space into unexpected geometrics kept the audience
on the edge of their seats.”
- Lyn Shapiro, Dance Magazine


Picture Photo by Kiesha Stephens
 

Bridge and Tunnel

 A playful homage to growing up in Queens, NY.

​2002
Music - Paul Simon

Lighting - John Imburgia
Costumes - Laura Vanner, after Cindy Darling
Dancers - 8
TRT - 12:45


"Jon Lehrer's delightful Bridge and Tunnel  is a playful hymn to the sidewalks of the outer  boroughs.
It's a first rate sample of American vernacular dance, a genre whose distinguished heritage includes
Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free, Agnes DeMille's Rodeo, and Gene Kelley's Singin' in the Rain solo."
- Kelly Kleiman, Chicago Reader


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Photo by Chad Cooper

Cash or Check?
 

In the 1920’s the phrase ‘Cash or Check?’ was used to ask,"Will you kiss me now or later?"

2014
Music - Moreno Quintet Jazz Manouche, Cab Calloway, Tchan Tchou Vidal, Kahn & Donaldson, Gypsy Jazz Caravan

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Tammy Bialek
Dancers - 8
TRT - 15:00

“Cash or Check,” with its high-energy playfulness and period costumes, transports you back to 1920s America. Above all, group members looked as though they were having a blast, as though there was
nowhere else they’d rather be." -
Colin Dabkowski, The Buffalo News



​Chukchi 
In November 2014, the company toured to the Far East of Russia - to a city called Anadyr, in the region of Chukotka. On this tour, which was sponsored by the US Department of State, we were treated to a performance by the State Chukchi-Eskimo Song and Dance Ensemble - Ergryon. Chukchi for sunrise, Ergryon’s performance was awe inspiring. After the performance we spent the entire day together, learning about each others cultures and art forms. They taught us a class that combined ballet technique with their traditional dance forms which celebrate their history and daily lives. We taught them our highly physical and athletic technique and style along with company repertoire. Following our day of cultural exchange, Ergryon's Artistic Director gave us their original music and blessing to utilize and share it with the world. Out of this once in a lifetime experience, “Chukchi” was created. This work is our heartfelt thank you and homage to the beautiful people and culture of Chukotka.

2015
​Music -  Ergryon

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8
TRT - 15:30
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Photo by Chad Cooper
“Chukchi was a spectacle worthy of Broadway. With a tribal feel, Chukchi was breathtaking. When the lights went down, it drew the loudest applause of the evening, and rightfully so." - Matt Chandler, The Buffalo News

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Photo by Jim Bush



Femeie de Lume 

Romanian for “Woman of the World’.
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2014
Music - Giacomelli, Einaudi

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 5
TRT - 10:45

“Like some exalted goddess, dancer Colleen Walsh was carried and attended to by four male dancers who kept her aloft as if up on a never-ending symbolic pedestal. With a potent mixture of strength, grace and sensuality, her skilled performance as the object of worship was a highlight of the evening.” 
                 - Steve Sucato, Buffalo News




Fused by 8

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2010
Music - Black Violin

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8
TRT - 10:00

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Photo by David Evertsen
“If there is something you can expect from this work, it is that it is going to go somewhere unexpected.
This delightful trend is what brought the audience to its feet."  - Dance Source Houston


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Photo by Christopher Duggan, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival


Here In This Eden
 

Completely lost in their love for each other, they are the only two people in the world.
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​2013
Music - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke, Balanescu Quartet

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Dancers - 2
TRT - 8:15
“Almost divine, Here in This Eden was a wonderfully harmonious-dreamy pas de deux with great charisma.” 
- Onetz - Amberg, Germany



​Instinct 
A male duet that follows the evolution from animal to man.
​

​2000
Music - Clint Mansel
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Lighting - Tabitha Rodman
Dancers - 2
TRT - 7:00

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Photo by Nate Benson
 “Lehrer’s affinity for air-born antics doesn’t keep him from making stunning use of the floor and stationary movement in the male duet Instinct. The dancers assault the ground, their ritualistic gestures less giving
into gravity than diving into it." - Lyn Shapiro, Dance Magazine


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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

La Follia

The musicality of Vivaldi combined with the
athletic ingenuity of JLDC!

2023
Music - Antonio Vivaldi
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Lighting - Jon Lehrer
Dancers - 8
TRT  11:00





Loose Canon 

A zany comedy inspired by the film
“One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest”.

2004

Music - Johann Palchelbel
​Costumes - Sarah Brazo
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Dancers - 5
TRT - 7:30

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Photo by Kiesha Stephens
“In Loose Canon, Lehrer's sharp choreography requires honest acting over hapless mugging and
expertly entwines humor and pain"  - Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune


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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Murmur 

A lyrically infused work based on murmuration and quantum entanglement.

2012
Music - Budo, The Cinematic Orchestra, Grey Reverend
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8
TRT - 12:50
"A graceful work filled with balletic movement that explores the constant tension between
the individual and the group."- Steve Sucato, Buffalo News


Pantheon Rising 
Using science fiction and Greek mythology as inspiration, an epic work about the Gods and Goddesses who created the universe.

2013

Original Music Composition - Damien Simon
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling & Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8
TRT 12:00
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Photo by Jamie Kraus, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
“The aggressive, hard-driving group choreography of Pantheon Rising blew across the stage like a gale-force wind carrying with it truly heroic figures with the single-minded determination and drive the marvelous company of dancers brings to every work and performance.” - Colin Dabkowski, Buffalo News

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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Pulp 

What if Buster Keaton, Quentin Tarantino, and Scooby-Doo made a dance...

2016

Music - Ennio Marricone, James Brown & 2Pac Shakur, Riziero Ortolani, Booket T. & The M.G.’s
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8
TRT - 14:05

 "With a lot of wit and slapstick the dancers take the audience on a crazy journey.
“Pulp" shows that dance theater can be poetic, expressive, and moving.” 
  -
Sigrid Blomen-Radermacher, RP-Online - Vieren, Germany


​Rhapsody
The classicism and coolness of jazz dance and music in full effect.

2017

Music- Allen Toussaint, Dave Brubeck, Mocean Worker
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes -Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8 
TRT 10:00
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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Photo by Gary Emord-Netzley

Sirenic 
"Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of
nature’s course.”  - Roman Payne, The Wanderess


2017
Music - DakhaBrakha
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 4
TRT - 15:00
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“The four women of the company perfectly stage a physical wave with the help of an almost stage-sized, ventilated cloth, reminiscent of the feeling of natural weightlessness.” 
- Gunter Faigle - Sudkurier - Villingen, Germany


​Solstice
A celebration of all things summer.

2019
Music - Will Close and The Earth Harp Collective, Bertelmann
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Dancers - 8
TRT -  9:30

Solstice was commissioned by and created at Artpark in Lewiston, NY for their Summer Solstice Celebration.
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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Photo by Kiesha Stephens


Stand


2022
Music - Regina Spektor
Lighting - Jon Lehrer
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 1
TRT - 5:08

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Sum Of Us

Together, we can create something greater than us as individuals.

2021
Music - Guild Keetman, Carl Orff
Lighting - Jeremy Granger
Costumes - Laura Vanner

Dancers - 8
TRT - 11:16
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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Photo by Luz
​SuperZeroes 
A dysfunctional family just trying to cope with each other.

2010
Music - Bellstedt, Rigolleto, Dvorak, Bach, Sibelius
Costumes - Jon Lehrer
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Dancers - 5
TRT -  11:00
“Charmingly idiosyncratic tics and fragments of movement that most choreographers would toss onto the cutting room floor are strung together to tell an odd story about a dysfunctional family of superheroes."
- Steve Sucato, Buffalo News


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The Alliance 

A group of warriors prepare for battle, relying on their individual strengths as well as their strength in numbers.

2011
Music - YACHT, No Zu, Iva Nova
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Dancers - 8
TRT - 12:30

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Photo by Rhea Anna
“A tour de force of creativity and a stunning piece of work.”
- Colin Dabkowski, The Buffalo News


Picture Photo by Nate Benson
  The Way Within
  A dancer embarks on a journey to find herself amidst the push and pull of
  everyday lif
e. Based on the novel "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse


  2007
  Music - Christopher O’Riley

  Lighting - Kam Hobbs
  Costume - Laura Vanner
  Dancers - 1
  TRT - 5:30

“As a bow to all stage art, The Way Within contrasts between the floating lightness of classical ballet
and its weighty, self-confident counterpart in modern dance. “
- 
Annette Mahro, Badische Zeitung - Lorrach, Germany 

​Through The Storm
​Through The Storm represents the past two years of struggle, hardship, but most of all the creativity and perseverance
artists held on to throughout the pandemic.


2022
Original Music Composition - Zeno Pittarelli
Lighting - Andrew Hunt
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8
TRT -  13:30

Through The Storm was developed with the support
of a 2022 CUNY Dance Initiative residency at
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
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Photo by Steven Pisano

Picture Photo by Kiesha Stephens
                 
                 Troika 

                  The power of three together is greater than the individual. 
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                  2016
                  Music - Goldmund, Michael Nyman
                  Lighting - Kam Hobbs
                  Costumes - Jessica Wegrzyn
                  Dancers - 3
                  TRT -  11:00

                

“The dancers brilliantly implement the scenic ingenuity of Jon Lehrer. They use the entire stage space, develop a dynamic of movement that makes tension-filled sequences and abrupt stops, and show how well
they master their body balance.”
- Gunter Faiglem, Sudkurier - Villingen, Germany