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Guest Classes with Lydia Johnson Guest Classes with Lydia Johnson
Lydia Johnson May 16, 2017 - Jun 1, 2017; Tue, Thu

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

The Company

Lydia Johnson Dance has been consistently praised for its distinctive choreography, which uses components of ballet woven seamlessly into a contemporary dance vocabulary, as well as for the emotionally resonant performances of its dancers. LJD holds an annual NY Season, and this year, the company will perform at New York Live Arts June 21, 22 and 23 2017. LJD has performed at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Downtown Dance Festival and Great Friends Dance Festival in Newport, RI. Most recently, the company was invited to perform in Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers East and West at the 92nd Street Y.

The Classes

Each class will begin with a barre warm-up and progress to working on the techniques used in Ms. Johnson's vocabulary, which is ballet-based and fused with drop and release modern dance components.

The class will conclude with a phrase from the LJD Company Repertory. Taught by LJD Company dancers, each class will emphasize individual interpretations of combinations and phrases with special focus on linking the movement to the music.

LJD's focus in performance is on the ability of each dancer to express the choreography with an individual, musically intelligent voice. Rather than working to attain a uniform quality, LJD dancers strive to bring their own personal vision into the phrases Ms. Johnson choreographs. Works used in the classes are set to composers Osvaldo Golijov, Marc Mellitts, JS Bach, Mozart, Brad Mehldau and Handel.

The Director

Ms. Johnson makes unadorned, soundly structured, musically adept ballets for a lovely, unpretentious group of dancers." -Soibhan Burke, The New York Times 2016

"What seems to count most for Ms. Johnson is music. The four pieces on the program all showed uncommon skill at matching ballet movement to music, both at the large scale of structure and in small, felicitous details." Brian Seibert, The New York Times 2015

"For musicality and fine structuring, few people currently choreographing in the New York dance scene can compare with Lydia Johnson. There is thought, passion and tenderness in her work, and a depth of musical resonance that is very satisfying to behold."
Philip Gardner, Oberon's Grove 2015



LJD's selection of company dancers is ongoing. Dancers are often chosen from those who have studied with us. Auditions will soon be announced for Fall 2017.

Workshop Fees
Single Class: $20
Full Workshop: $100

Pre-register for all six classes and receive a 15% discount!
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