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NOV 20, 2015
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Lubovitch's Transparent Things now on view at the Grand Palais until Feb 29
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Attila Csiki in Transparent Things. Photo: Rose Eichenbaum.
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In Paris, still reeling from the recent tragedy, a new exhibit has opened that celebrates the better aspects of the human spirit. An excerpt of Lubovitch's acclaimed dance "Transparent Things" is part of the exhibition, called "Picasso Mania," now on view at the Grand Palais through February 29, 2016. Click here for the exhibition's website.
The exhibition studies the impact of Picasso’s work on contemporary art, including theater and dance. Diana Picasso, the granddaughter of the artist, is co-curating the exhibition together with the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée Picasso. She requested inclusion of "Transparent Things" (created in 2012) because it was an important work inspired by Picasso’s painting "Family of Saltimbanques" (1905).
In the exhibition catalogue, Lubovitch wrote, in part, as follows:
"In 'Family of Saltimbanques,' Picasso has depicted the lives of itinerant street performers with the barest essentials of line, color, and design. At this moment of contemplation the pensive look on their faces and physical attitude speak to the challenge of the life they have chosen. This is a picture of the life they lead between acts. The painting tells of the fragility and impermanence of the artists’ lives – a life so fragile that it is nearly transparent. That is why I have called my dance 'Transparent Things.' It is a movement poem without irony, just as Picasso's painting is a design poem without irony. Picasso choreographed his image on a flat plane with four sides using only two dimensions that miraculously reveal a world of unfathomable depth and humanity. I have painted my tribute to his image with dancers’ bodies which, through the use of time, merely adds a third dimension."
To read more about the dance, click here.
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Marimba being performed in Germany from now through June
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Marimba, as performed by the Oldenburg Ballet.
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Last Saturday, the Oldenburg Ballet in Germany staged its first performance of Lubovitch's "Marimba" (created in 1976). The dance, set to a score by Steve Reich, was the first dance to make use of "Minimalist" music. Beginning with "Marimba," Lubovitch went on to create a series of ground-breaking dances responding to the music of Reich and Philip Glass.
The dance will be performed from now through June 2016. The performance dates during the next two months are: Nov 22 & 28; Dec 13 & 28; and Jan 5, 9 & 30.
For additional performance dates, or for more information about the Oldenburg Ballet, click here for the company's website.
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Concerto 622 being performed by the Booker T. Washington high school in Dallas
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The opening section of Concerto Six Twenty-Two, as performed at the Royal Opera House (UK) by Northern Ballet. Photo: Emma Kaulhar.
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Over the past 47 years, Lar Lubovitch has created more than 100 dances for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, but, of all those, one of the company’s most renowned works is surely "Concerto Six Twenty-Two" (which premiered in 1986). This fall, the Lubovitch company taught the first movement to the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, TX. The school gave its first performance last week. Many of New York's finest dancers, including several members of the Lubovitch company, first began their training at Booker T. Washington. We are very happy to be able to give back.
When "Concerto" was performed two years ago at the Royal Opera House in London by Northern Ballet, the writer for "Seen and Heard International" called the work “simply gorgeous” and went on to say:
“Although nearly thirty years old, 'Concerto Six Twenty-Two' is still as fresh and striking as on its very first performance. Lubovitch’s choreography is imaginative and works in perfect harmony with Mozart’s music, becoming an integral part of it…'Concerto Six Twenty-Two' is exactly as the music is: joyful, harmonious, subtle and, at times, sublime.”
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The Black Rose opened the Chicago Dancing Festival in August
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Mucuy Bolles & Barton Cowperthwaite of the Lubovitch company in The Black Rose. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu.
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The Lubovitch company opened the 2015 edition of the Chicago Dancing Festival with a performance of the company's newest hit, "The Black Rose." The dance premiered last fall at the Joyce Theater.
Audiences and critics alike were wowed by the powerful work. In the words of The Chicago Reader magazine:
"Lar Lubovitch Dance Company’s 'The Black Rose,' a darkly over-the-top, not-for-kids two-act story ballet, was the blockbuster closer. Dramatically costumed and choreographed and beautifully danced by leads Mucuy Bolles, Reid Bartelme, and Barton Cowperthwaite, 'The Black Rose' is a macabre take on Sleeping Beauty complete with rape and cannibalism, powered by a wonderfully weird collage of a score—by Chicago native Scott Marshall—that draws on Disney and Tchaikovsky and includes the 1940s standard 'You Stepped Out of a Dream.' I'd see it again in a second."
For more articles about the dance, click here.
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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 47 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 40 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 the Howard Gilman Foundation, 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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