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Announcing the U.S. Premiere of Elemental Brubeck and the return of Men's Stories.
November 8 - 12.
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Special Event:
To recognize his contributions to the performing arts, the Lubovitch
company honors Dr. L. Jay Oliva, President Emeritus of NYU and Executive Producer of the Skirball Center. Limited invitations still available. Click here.
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Click here to purchase tickets
and for information about the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
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The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company to perform in New York City at the Skirball
Center at NYU.
** Four performances only. **
Featuring the U.S. premiere of Elemental Brubeck. |
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Lar Lubovitch and his renowned Lar Lubovitch Dance Company return to Greenwich Village-having celebrated their 36th anniversary at Washington Square
Church last year - for a four-night stand presented by NYU's Jack H. Skirball Center, in association with the company.
They will perform the U.S. premiere of Lubovitch's Elemental Brubeck and a reprise of their
highly acclaimed Men's Stories. The anticipated performances will take place at 8:00 P.M. on the evenings of November 8, 10, 11, and 12.
Over 37 years leading his company in dances described by The New York Times as "lushly romantic,
passionate, tender" and "shamelessly beautiful," Lubovitch has drawn on a number of
musical styles, from classical (Bach, Stravinsky, Ravel) to standards (Cole Porter, Gershwin,
Rodgers and Hammerstein) to rock (The Doors, Tom Waits and Annie Lennox). He was among the first to use the music of new music pioneers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass
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For Elemental Brubeck, Lubovitch brings his poetic, lyrical choreography to a music
defined by similar qualities and rarely mined in his choreography to date: jazz. The work,
which the San Francisco Ballet premiered in Paris to acclaim this summer, appropriates
three pieces from the Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1963 album Time Changes: "Iberia," "Theme
from Elementals," and "Elementals." The choreography combines aspects of bebop and early 20th century American film with a modern, athletic sensibility.
Of the San Francisco Ballet's performance of the work, London's The Independent
raved, "Lubovitch finds a freedom in the form [of jazz] that is genuinely uplifting." For the U
.S. premiere at the Skirball Center, Elemental Brubeck will be performed by members of Lubovitch's own company for the first time.
The program for the company's four nights at the Skirball Center also includes
Lubovitch's sexy, critically lauded Men's Stories, which features an all-male cast of nine
dancers. With an audio collage and original score by composer Scott Marshall, based on
Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, the work conveys the individual and shared stories of these men without words, relying solely on movement and music.
The choreography unfolds as a series of scenarios-rather than through a single,
uninterrupted, overall narrative-that ranges from pensive and melancholy to virtuosic and acrobatic, replete with fistfights, duets, and breathtaking solos.
In reviews of the original New York run of the piece in 2000, The Village Voice
called Men's Stories "one of Lubovitch's finest," and The New York Times described it as
a "joyous, poignant expression of everything that Mr. Lubovitch seems to have had in mind
about the personalities, histories and distinctive movement styles of the nine terrific male dancers for whom the piece was created."
The company's dancers are: Julian Barnett, Griff Braun, Patrick Corbin, Jay Franke,
Junichi Fukuda, Roger C. Jeffrey, Tai Jimenez, Gabby Malone, Miho Morinoue, Rebecca
Rigert, Scott Rink, Kevin Scarpin, Sean Stewart, Michael Leon Thomas, and Rasta Thomas.
Tickets for performances can be purchased in person at the Skirball Center, 566
LaGuardia Place (Washington Square South); online at skirballcenter.nyu.edu; or by calling
Ticket Central at 212.279.4200. NYU Students can purchase tickets to all Skirball presentations for $12 per show.
Skirball has also launched their new Insider Program-a flexible, significantly
discounted advance ticket purchase plan. Skirball "Insiders" who purchase tickets to two
shows in advance will receive a 20% discount. A purchase of three or more shows in
advance translates to a 30% discount. Benefits include early ordering privileges, prime seat locations, and invitations to special private events.
Media contact: Blake Zidell or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000, blake@sacksco.com or carla@sacksco.com.
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More about the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company |
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One of this country's most versatile, popular, and widely seen choreographers, Lar Lubovitch founded the award-winning Lar Lubovitch Dance Company 37 years ago and
has choreographed more than 100 dances for the company. Based in New York City, the company has performed in virtually all 50 states of this country as well as in more
than 30 foreign countries throughout the world.
Lubovitch's musically sophisticated works have also been included in the repertories of other select companies
throughout the world, including the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater, and Netherlands Dance Theater.
One of the most impressive new works created by the company in the last few years was the acclaimed evening-length
version of Othello - produced by the Lubovitch company in an unprecedented 3-way collaboration with American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet.
TV viewers were treated to Lubovitch's powerful Othello in an Emmy-nominated installment of the PBS Great
Performances series, and Broadway-goers were introduced to Lubovitch via his Tony-nominated choreography for Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. Recently, Lubovitch starred
as himself in and provided the choreography for the acclaimed Robert Altman film The Company.
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More about the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts |
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NYU's Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, located off of Washington Square South at 566 LaGuardia Place, provides a large-scale, professional performance
space for university productions and events and live professional performances from around the world. The 860-seat theater (which opened in October 2003) hosts the
only major university-based professional performing arts presenting program in Manhattan.
The Center presents theater, dance, music, music theater, and opera, solo performance, comedy, video, film, and
public affairs events. Its mission is to serve the NYU community while building young audiences (age 18 - 40) for live performance by reaching out to them with a broad
range of world-class, forward-thinking work at low ticket prices.
The Skirball Center is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South.
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Information about tickets and the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
October 10, 2005
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