Lar Lubovitch Dance Company


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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company presented a program with three works, separated by 15 minute intermissions. The program started with Concerto Six Twenty-Two (1986) a light, fast paced work that was sensational. The dance is performed to Mozart's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra and it uses the mostly allegro tempo of this early classical music to drive much of the dance. Dancers come and go. They form circles that break into two rows, and back to a circle. The dancing is energetic and fun. Dancers move in and out of stage, so that sometimes the whole company is dancing and at others only one, or two, or three dancers take center stage. A number of times there are two dancers on stage -at one time two male dancers performed a great duet-. The stage is brightly lit and the costumes are mostly white.

The second work was called Jangle (2008) Four Hungarian Dances. This was performed to Bela Bartok's "Rhapsodies #1 and #2 for Volin and Piano. This is the only work where dancers wear shoes. The dance is more follkloric and includes one great solo.

The company finished with Dvořák Serenade. A work performed to Dvořák's Serenade in E Major. The costumes are very light, almost translucent. The lighting is more moody than for the other works, and the moves are a bit more ballet like. However, like on the first work, the dancers are barefoot.

Personally, I really liked the company. I thought that the choreography was fantastic; moves were fresh and different from much of what I have seen. The one thing that was strange is that for a company of this caliber, Northrop was half empty.
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Forty years ago, Lar Lubovitch started his own modern-dance company in New York City, and continues to enjoy popular and critical acclaim around the globe. While he’s watched many dance trends come and go, Lubovitch’s own lush aesthetic has remained constant, entrancing audiences with waves of passionate movement performed by dancers whose technical rigor complements their open-hearted expansiveness.
Recognized as one of the nation’s leading modern-dance choreographers, Lubovitch has also created choreography for jazz-dance companies, ballet troupes, Broadway shows and Olympic-medalist ice dancers. But it’s Lubovitch’s poetic modern-dance works, imbued with his singular musicality that audiences have enjoyed for decades.
This program includes several of Lubovitch’s recent large-scale romantic works, in which texture and mood, eloquence and rigor are conveyed through his 12-member troupe. Breathtaking, sophisticated, mesmerizing and exuberant are just some of the plaudits critics have bestowed on Lubovitch’s current work.


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Concerto Six Twenty two

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Concerto Six Twenty two

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Concerto Six Twenty two

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Concerto Six Twenty two


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Posted: Friday - December 05, 2008 at 11:02 AM          


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