Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 7:30pm
"Full of leaps and twists-brilliantly acrobatic." - The New York Times
From New York
Program-- Running time 2 hours: "Jangle, Four Hungarian Dances" (2008), Music by Bela Bartok, "Rhapsodies #1 and #2 for Violin and Piano" "Men's Stories, A Concerto in Ruins" (2000), Audio collage and original score by Scott Marshall "Dvorak Serenade" (2007), Music by Antonin Dvorak, "Serenade in E Major"A Question and Answer Session with Lar Lubovitch will immediately follow the Wednesday performance!
Read the October 2008 review about Lar Lubovitch at the Dance Theater Workshop in the New York Times.
One of America's most versatile, popular and well-known choreographers, Lar Lubovitch has been cited by The New York Times as "one of the ten best choreographers in the world." In 2008-2009, his company will celebrate its 40th anniversary season with its first US tour in more than a decade. In his prolific career, Lar Lubovitch has choreographed more than 100 works for his own company, as well as work for Broadway, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and other major companies. Making their Portland debut, the 14-member Lar Lubovitch Dance Company will perform a memorable program of new and retrospective work that underscores Lar Lubovitch's passionate musicality and deep humanity.
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and The MetLife Foundation.
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