The Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet mission is to create groundbreaking choreography under visionary and singular artistic direction, via production of contemporary ballet world premieres in collaboration world-class dancers and partners, whilst offering the finest in ballet and contemporary dance education to the next generation and community at-large.
Lemon Sponge Cake brings new concepts and realities to the field of dance and its audiences, via the performance of new work, new choreography. Internationally recognized choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl integrates ballet technique with contemporary movement to become a powerful vehicle to depict modern life. The results are strikingly imaginative, intensely emotional, thought provoking and distinctly progressive.
Lemon Sponge Cake performs in the United States and Europe. Its received outstanding critical-acclaim nationally and internationally, noted for its signature choreography, uncompromising artistic vision and highly-skilled performers and collaborators. Lemon Sponge Cake is based in Boulder CO.
EVENTS (2025-26 SEASON)
Lola Run
LEMON SPONGE CAKE'S MESMERIZING NEW WORK BY INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CHOREOGRAPHER ROBERT SHER-MACHHERNDL IN COLLABORATION WITH RENOWNED CONCERT PIANIST GEORGE LOPEZ
Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet 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.
- Saturday, September 13, 2025 | 7:00 pm
- Sunday, September 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm
Gordon Gamm Theater, Dairy Center Arts
2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302