The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers
| The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers | |
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| Genre |
Web series Dance Action/adventure Drama Interactive |
| Created by | Jon M. Chu |
| Directed by | Jon M. Chu Scott Speer Ryan Landels Charles Oliver Christopher Scott |
| Narrated by | Roger Aaron Brown |
| Composer(s) | Nathan Lanier Paul Dateh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Jon Chu Scott Ehrlich Hieu Ho Larry Tanz |
| Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
| Cinematography | Alice Brooks |
| Running time | 10 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Agility Studios |
| Distributor | Paramount Digital Entertainment |
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| Original network | Hulu |
| Original release | July 7, 2010 – September 22, 2011 |
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The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, commonly called The LXD, was a 2010–2011 web series about two groups of rival dancers: The Alliance of the Dark who are the villains and The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, the heroes, who discover they have superpowers referred to as "the Ra" through their dance abilities. The entire story takes place over hundreds of years, beginning in the 1920s up to the year 3000.
The series was created, directed and produced by Jon M. Chu, who says he was inspired to create the series by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Smooth Criminal" music videos and by the dancers he met while filming the movie Step Up 2: The Streets. He has described the show as "balletic", "operatic", "high quality" and a "Justice League of dance." The series was choreographed by Christopher Scott and Harry Shum, Jr. with assistant choreography by Galen Hooks. Members had a wide variety of specialties including hip-hop, krumping, contemporary, tricking, popping, b-boying, jazz, tap, and ballet. All of the choreography and stunts were real; there were no special effects or wire work and the entire series was shot on location without the use of green screens.
50% of the sales of the official LXD T-shirt went to support the work of the non-profit organization Invisible Children, Inc..PUMA was the lead sponsor for The LXD. As of 2010, an official soundtrack was in production. The first LXD theatrical release was presented as a 3D short film, screening before the director's fan cut of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.
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