The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers

The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, commonly called The LXD, is an American web series that premiered on Hulu.

[1][3][8][fn 1] Members had a wide variety of specialties, including hip-hop, krumping, contemporary, tricking, popping, b-boying, jazz, tap, and ballet.

[4] 50% of the sales of the official LXD T-shirt went to support the work of the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, Inc.[13][14]|group="fn"}} Puma was the lead sponsor for the series.

[17][26] The first two webisodes (Chapters in the series), "The Tale of Trevor Drift" and "AntiGravity Heroes", were both released July 7.

Season three tells the back story of how the LXD was formed and what led to the Ox and the Umbras uniting to become the Alliance of the Dark.

[29] AdvertisingAge.com gave the series a favorable review stating "...each episode of 'LXD' packs a wealth of narrative sophistication into its eight or nine minutes.

Combine this with the theater-worthy production values and a cast that exerts itself to an ungodly extent, and the end result is—pun time!—extraordinary.

"[34] In January 2011, the series won a Digital Luminary Award in the "Original Web Content" category.

[36] At the announcement, IATAS President and CEO, Bruce Paisner remarked "Jon M. Chu is one of the most up & coming directing talents of our time and we look forward to honoring him for his innovative contributions to the field of digital entertainment with our Pioneer Prize.