Jon Lehrer finds enlightenment in dance
27/01/10 19:40 Filed in: Articles
Every season the Jewish Community Center selects one nationally known troupe to feature during Dance Month. This year it's LehrerDance, a spunky touring company known for its fearless dancers, snappy choreography and headstrong leader. The troupe performs in Houston this weekend. Read More...
LehrerDance, Organically Athletic - Chicago Examiner
29/09/09 20:28 Filed in: LehrerDance Reviews
For more than a decade, jazz dance has been morphing into a new idiom that threads together contemporary, theatrical and street styles. Jon Lehrer - a dancer, choreographer and former associate director of Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago - has been a leading innovator in the field of grounded and well-crafted jazz-inspired eclecticism. Read More...
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...
LehrerDance, High Octane - ArtVoice
23/09/09 21:32 Filed in: LehrerDance Reviews
Jazz dance icon Jon Lehrer officially lands in Buffalo—amidst considerable and deserved hoopla—with his inaugural concert to kick off LehrerDance’s home season on September 12 & 13 at the Center for the Arts in the University of Buffalo. After rave reviews in Dance Magazine and the Chicago Tribune, the cover of Dance Teacher—an impressive resume—what dance fan wouldn’t be jazzed that Lehrer chose Buffalo to plunk down his anchor.
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