Movement exploration
and Choreography

Robert Sher-Machherndl

Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet

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.

“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.”

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Gallery 2025

Funny dark and provocative, Trust was a highlight of the program.

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In our 26th year, we ask you to make a tax-deductible donation in support of Lemon Sponge Cake’s artistic vision. Your generosity is to secure the production of ground-breaking performances and presentations, to ensure the engagement of highly-skilled artists, to offer current workshops and trainings for the seasoned professional to the enthusiastic community member, and to strengthen world-class art in our community.