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
      • Loose Canon
      • Murmur
      • Pantheon Rising
      • Pulp
      • Sirenic
      • Solstice
      • Sum of Us
      • SuperZeroes
      • Troika
    • Jon Lehrer >
      • Bio
      • Teaching & Choreography
    • Dancers
    • Intensives >
      • PBA Intensive 2022
    • Company Auditions
  • Performances
    • About US
  • Media
    • JLDC Tour VLOG
    • Videos
    • Photos >
      • NYC Photos
      • Performance Photos
      • Studio Photos
  • Reviews
    • Press Quotes
    • Presenter Quotes
    • Audience Quotes
  • Booking & Contact
    • APAP Showcase 2022
    • Booking
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Current 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
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"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

“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 David Evertsen

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

 “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 Nate Benson

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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

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





​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


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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Photo by Jamie Kraus, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
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

“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


​Pulp 
Buster Keaton, Quentin Tarantino, and Scooby-Doo walk into a bar...

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

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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

​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


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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Photo by Gary Emord-Netzley
“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

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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

​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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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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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

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


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 

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Touch

Of the five senses, touch is the most expressive and intimate.
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2019
Original Music Composition - Zeno Pittarelli
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 2
TRT -  7:00
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Photo by Kiesha Stephens

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                 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