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
    • Intensives
    • Company Auditions
    • Board of Directors
  • Performances
    • NYC Spring Performance - May 6
  • 2023 Spring Benefit
  • Media
    • JLDC Tour VLOG >
      • Buffalo Tour Vlog 2022
      • Florida Tour Vlog 2022
      • ALL TOUR VLOGS
    • Videos
    • Photos >
      • Performance Photos
      • NYC Photos
      • Studio Photos
  • Reviews
    • Press Quotes
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A Ritual Dynamic                                                 

2007
Music - Hovannes K, DJ Disse
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Dancers - 8


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




Bridge and Tunnel
2002
Music - Paul Simon

Lighting - John Imburgia
Costumes - Laura Vanner, after Cindy Darling
Dancers - 8






                    
"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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Cash or Check? 

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

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Jon Lehrer
Dancers - 8


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


Chukchi
2015
​Music -  Ergyron

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8 


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 - Ergyron. Chukchi for sunrise, Ergyron’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, Ergyron'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...


“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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Femeie de Lume 

2014
Music - Giacomelli, Einaudi

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 5


“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 the highlight of the evening." - Steve Sucato, Buffalo News


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Fused by 8

2012
Music - Black Violin

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8


“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



Here In This Eden 
​2013
Music - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke, Balanescu Quartet

Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Dancers - 2



“Almost divine, Here in This Eden was a wonderfully harmonious-dreamy pas de deux with great charisma.”
​                                                                                                           - Onetz - Amberg, Germany



Instinct​
2000

Music - Clint Mansel
Costumes - Jon Lehrer
Lighting - Tabitha Rodman
Dancers - 2




 “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."
                                                                                                                 - Lynn Shapiro, Dance Magazine



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Loose Canon 

2004
Music - Johann Palchelbel
​Costumes - Sarah Brazo
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Dancers - 5

“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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​Murmur 

2012
Music - Budo, The Cinematic Orchestra, Grey Reverend
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 4, 6, or 8

"A graceful work filled with balletic movement that explores the constant tension between the individual and the group." - Steve Sucato, Buffalo News




​Pantheon Rising 
2013
Original Music Composition - Damien Simon
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Cindy Darling
Dancers - 8 

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“The aggressive, hard-driving group choreography 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 
2016
Music - Ennio Marricone, James Brown & 2Pac Shakur, Riziero Ortolani, Booket T. & The M.G.’s
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8 

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



Sirenic 
2017
Music - DakhaBrakha
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 4

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“The four woman 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 ​


Solstice
2019
Music - William Close & The Earth Harp Collective,
                Volker Bertelmann, Hauschka
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Lighting - Jeremy Granger
Dancers - 8
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Solstice was commissioned by and created at Artpark in Lewiston, NY for their Summer Solstice Celebration.


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SuperZeroes 

2010
Music - Bellstedt, Rigolleto, Dvorak, Bach, Sibelius
Costumes - Jon Lehrer
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Dancers - 5
“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



Sum Of Us
2021

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

Dancers - 8


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The Alliance 

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

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


Through The Storm
2022
Original Music Compositon - Zeno Pittarelli
Lighting - Andrew Hunt
Costumes - Laura Vanner
Dancers - 8


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



​Troika 
2016
Music - Goldmund, Michael Nyman
Lighting - Kam Hobbs
Costumes - Jessica Wegrzyn
Dancers - 3

 
“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