A Mesmerizing New Work by Internationally Recognized Choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl in Collaboration with Renowned Concert Pianist George Lopez
Lemon Sponge Cake performs the mesmerizing poetry of LOLA RUN a new work by choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl. With a lean, elegant, modernist, almost mechanical impressionism, the audience faces the beauty of how bodies move in space without explanation. Sher-Machherndl takes movements and gestures, some of which recognizable from everyday life and transforms them into a style of dance that doesn’t tell what to think, what to feel, or what to believe. A new form of beauty stripped of signposts and melodrama. “ … it’s my curiosity that drives me to uncover new movement language, to redirect one’s mind, and take the audience on an intriguing journey,” says Sher-Machherndl.
Sher-Machherndl and dancers are to share the stage with highly-accomplished guest artist and dynamic concert pianist George Lopez, a Bowdoin College Artist in Residence.“Working with Robert Sher-Machherndl again after almost ten years is a real joy. He’s such a creative force—so spontaneous and deeply musical. I love how his choreography with Lemon Sponge Cake feels both free and grounded. It will be a fun and inspiring collaboration, and I’m excited to see where the movement and music take us this time.” says George Lopez.
Lemon Sponge Cake operates in a place full of curious combinations and in doing so gives a world as big, and as deep, and with as many possibilities as the world we live in. You must sometimes dig for it, that’s for sure, but in every production there’s a freedom offered, a freedom that empowers the audience to follow its own path with the piece without the fear of being ‘wrong’.
“ … highlight of the program.” The New York Times.
“When your way of seeing beauty is changed, your way of seeing the world is changed. It’s this that makes Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet Company so irreplaceable and vital to the cultural conversation around art’s place in society. With the ‘Technological Age’ about to enter a new and uncertain chapter with the advent of AI as part of daily life, of fact and fiction being almost impossible to tell apart, I can think of no greater place, no more important a place, no more essential a place for an artist to create than a world that reminds us to create our own beauty. Lemon Sponge acts like a solvent on reality, and with it, we’re given a chance to see beauty in everything.” Michael French | Director Writer