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APRIL 24, 2014
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Lubovitch to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Juilliard on May 23
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Lar Lubovitch (Photo by Nan Melville)
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On Friday May 23rd in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Lar Lubovitch will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by his alma mater, The Juilliard School. Lubovitch began his dance training at Juilliard in 1962, where his teachers were Martha Graham, Jose Limon and Antony Tudor. In 1968, Lubovitch founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (LLDC), and, over the past 45 years, many graduates of Juilliard have been members of the company. The Lubovitch company has also set several of its signature works on the students at Juilliard. The most recent of these restagings was Concerto Six Twenty-Two, which was performed just last month. Click here for complete details about the upcoming ceremony.
Lubovitch will be joined by 7 other artists and philanthropists who will also be awarded honorary doctorates. They are Viola Davis, Joyce DiDonato, Frank Gehry, Philip Glass, Marcus Roberts and Bruce & Suzanne Kovner. Lubovitch has long-standing connections with several of his fellow awardees, especially with Gehry and Glass.
Every year the Chicago Dancing Festival, which was co-founded by Lubovitch and former LLDC dancer Jay Franke, takes place in venues throughout Chicago, but the one constant for the past 7 years has been a grand closing-night performance in the Gehry-designed Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. The festival has just released its line-up for the 8th season this coming August. Click here for complete details of this year’s festival.
Lubovitch has long been a great (and early) admirer of the music of Glass. Indeed, Lubovitch was one of the very first choreographers ever to create a dance set to Glass’ music. In quick succession, Lubovitch created North Star in 1978, Tilt-a-Whirl in 1979 and Mistral in 1980. Lubovitch's first dance to Glass' music, North Star, is generally considered one of the choreographer’s signature works.
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Lubovitch’s Concerto Six Twenty-Two to be performed at London’s Royal Opera House on May 8-10
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London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
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Lubovitch is currently in England restaging Concerto Six Twenty-Two on Northern Ballet -- one of the UK’s best companies -- in preparation for performances from May 8-10 at London’s Royal Opera House (in the Linbury Studio Theatre) and then subsequent performances from June 18-21 at Leeds’ Burton Theatre. Concerto was created by Lubovitch in 1986, and it has been acclaimed world-wide ever since its electrifying premiere at Carnegie Hall. Click here for The New York Times review of that premiere. The central male duet is one of the most famous duets in contemporary dance. The dance is set to Mozart’s "Concerto in A for Clarinet and Orchestra." Two of the four performances at the Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre) are already sold out. Click here for complete details about the London performances.
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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Mission: The Lubovitch company was created to realize the artistic vision of Lar Lubovitch, one of the foremost contemporary choreographers in the United States. The company exists: (1) to create new work; (2) to perform those works (and facilitate the performance of those works by others) both in our home base of New York City and around the world; and (3) to teach people of all ages, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds, in order to increase awareness and appreciation of dance.
History: Over the past 45 years, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company has gained a reputation as one of the world's leading modern dance companies and has performed in virtually every state of the US and in more than 30 foreign countries. Lar Lubovitch has been cited as one of the ten best choreographers in the world, and the company has been called a "national treasure" by Variety. The company is primarily focused on the creation of new dances, sometimes in collaboration with other top companies.
Contact: The Lubovitch company is located at 229 West 42nd Street, New York NY 10036. You can reach us at (212) 221-7909 or Lubovitch@aol.com. Or visit our website at www.lubovitch.org.
Support: Programs of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as by Harkness Foundation for Dance, McMullan Family Foundation, National Dance Project, New England Foundation for the Arts (with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation), New York Community Trust, O'Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation, Little One Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust, Shubert Foundation, A. Woodner Fund and numerous additional generous individuals, corporations and foundations.
Memberships: The Lubovitch company is a member of Dance/USA, Dance/NYC, Americans for the Arts and the Arts & Business Council of New York.
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