"Lydia Johnson is a true original whose choreography repays close attention. The new and recent dances she presented were fascinating in the way they isolated and reworked components of classical ballet... Fleeting duets and solo passages are embedded in the flow and the shifts from unison to individual choreography add to the texture. There is no discernible narrative, but you sense the unfolding of some fundamental human story." —Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, March 2004
Fall 2009 Classes
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Watch two excerpts from a Spring, 2008, performance.
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Lydia Johnson Dance 2009 New York Season
LJD performs four major works to music by Henryk Gorecki, Phillip Glass and to songs sung by Dean Martin! We can say Tickets available NOW through SmartTix. Read more...
News About Classes and Performances
Fall 2009 Classes
Now Open for Registration.
By Popular Demand
Longer Semester — 15 Classes
New pre-ballet, creative dance and hip hop and jazz dance classes Saturday mornings! Open House Dates at SOPAC to be announced soon!
Rave Review for March City Center Showings
“Lydia Johnson became overnight one of my favorite contemporary choreographers...her dancers took the floor and within seconds I knew I had found something I loved.” —Philip Gardner, Oberon's Grove Blog
LJD Dance Camp 2009
Announcing the Summer Dance Camp 2009, June 29 – July 10. Read more...
2009 Summer Season
July 16, 17 & 18, 2009, 8 p.m. at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street (at 9th Ave), New York
Fall Classes At SOPAC and The Burgdorff
Registration for classes for kindergartners through teens and adults. Read more...
All still photographs by Julie Lemberger (© Julie Lemberger,
2004)
Photographs from video footage shot by Marc Robison of Character
Generators.
Dancers pictured throughout our site are: Marianne Raub, Lisa
Tachick, Rachel Frank, Stephanie Leichtnam, Justin Bates, Jessica
Sand, Corbin Popp, Elizabeth Benton, Kathryn Albarelli, Dallas
Lundquist and Heather Hamilton.