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Growing a Dance Company in Buffalo - Buffalo Spree
23/09/09 21:40 Filed in: LehrerDance Reviews
Buffalo has had its share of big dance moments. Kathleen Crofton, also known as Pavlova’s baby, ran a school and a company that toured with Rudolf Nureyev in the 1970s. Many were thrilled when native son Neil Haskell made it to the final three in the second season of the Fox TV hit So You Think You Can Dance. Now that two big-time players, Jon Lehrer of LehrerDance and Joe Cipolla of Configurations Dance Company, have made Buffalo their home base, the city may be heading for a whole lot more big dance moments Read More...
Touring Dance Company Carries Buffalo Name - Buffalo Rising
23/09/09 21:38 Filed in: LehrerDance Reviews
Expanding the arts in Buffalo? People moving TO Buffalo for work? These are the results of Jon Lehrer's company LehrerDance, which he started in July 2007. The company is a nationally touring dance company and is calling Buffalo home. Read More...
LehrerDance Homecoming Weekend - Buffalo News
23/09/09 21:35 Filed in: LehrerDance Reviews
Not since the 1980s with the now-defunct Empire State Ballet has Buffalo’s dance community had such a presence on the national dance scene. To be sure, there have been some individual success stories — Rince Na Tiarna dancer Kevinah Dargan’s win at the Irish dance world championships in 2005 and Neil Haskell’s 2007 third-place finish on television’s “So You Think You Can Dance” to name a few. But as a professional dance community, Buffalo has been sliding off the national radar. Read More...