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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company presents the world premiere of The Black Rose: An Ancient Tale and a new production of Lubovitch’s Artemis in Athens featuring guest artist Alessandra Ferri October 15-19, 2014, at The Joyce Theater
New York, NY, August 13, 2014 – The internationally renowned Lar Lubovitch Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater with two dances based on ancient myths: the world premiere of The Black Rose: An Ancient Tale and a re-conceived production of Artemis in Athens, originally created for American Ballet Theatre in 2003.
The company’s newest dance, The Black Rose, tells a dark tale drawn by Lubovitch from the ancient folk stories from which fairy tales originally arose. This dramatic work for ten dancers is set to a commissioned score by Scott Marshall (composer of Lubovitch’s Men’s Stories).
Based on the Greek myth of the goddess of the hunt, Lubovitch’s new production of Artemis in Athens features the extraordinary Alessandra Ferri in the title role and Lubovitch Company dancer Tobin Del Cuore as Aktaion. Also featured as guest artists, performing the ensemble in Artemis, are ten young dancers from The Juilliard School. Artemis includes a newly commissioned orchestration of Christopher Theofanidis’s original score, performed live by Le Train Bleu under the direction of Ransom Wilson. At the time of Artemis’ premiere in 2003, as part of ABT’s tribute to the Cultural Olympiad, dance critic Jennifer Dunning wrote that Lubovitch “created a delicate aura of mystery and magic that is unusual on the ballet stage today” (The New York Times).
Lighting design for both works is by Lubovitch’s longtime collaborator Jack Mehler. Costumes by Fritz Masten.
The company’s eleven dancers are: Reid Bartelme, Anthony Bocconi, Mucuy Bolles, Nicole M. Corea, Barton Cowperthwaite, Chanel DaSilva, Tobin Del Cuore, Josh D. Green, Robbie Moore, Kamille Upshaw, and Eric Williams.
Performances will take place Wednesday, October 15 at 7pm; Thursday, October 16 and Friday, October 17 at 8pm; Saturday, October 18 at 2pm and 8pm; and Sunday, October 19 at 2pm and 7:30pm. Tickets range from $10 to $59 and can be purchased through JOYCECHARGE at (212) 242-0800 or online at www.joyce.org. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street) in Manhattan.
About the Company The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company was founded in 1968. Over the past 46 years it has gained an international reputation as one of America’s top dance companies. The company, based in New York City,
has created more than 100 new dances and performed throughout the United States and in more than 30 other countries.
Lar Lubovitch is one of America’s most versatile, popular, and widely seen choreographers. His dances have been performed by major companies throughout the world. His Othello–-A Dance in Three Acts, originally created for American Ballet Theatre, appeared on PBS’s “Great Performances” (and was nominated for an Emmy Award). His dances on film also include Fandango (International Emmy Award) and My Funny Valentine for the Robert Altman film The Company (nominated for an American Choreography Award). Lubovitch has also made a notable contribution to choreography in the field of ice-dancing, having created dances for Olympic skaters John Curry, Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, Brian Orser, JoJo Starbuck and Paul Wylie, as well as two ice-dance specials for television: The Sleeping Beauty (PBS) and The Planets (A&E) (nominated for an International Emmy Award, a Cable Ace Award, and a Grammy Award). His work on Broadway includes Into the Woods (Tony Award nomination), The Red Shoes (Astaire Award) and the Tony Award-winning revival of The King and I. In 2007, he founded the Chicago Dancing Festival with co-artistic director Jay Franke. The Festival is a series of performances by major American dance companies that takes place the last week of August at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Harris Theater, the Auditorium Theatre, and Chicago’s Millennium Park. The Chicago Dancing Festival reaches over 15,000 audience members annually and is completely free to the public. In 2007, Lubovitch was named “Chicagoan of the Year” by the Chicago Tribune, and in 2008, Lubovitch and Franke were named by Chicago Magazine as “Chicagoans of the Year” for having created the Chicago Dancing Festival. In 2011, Lubovitch was named a Ford Fellow by United States Artists, and he received the Dance/USA Honors, the dance field’s highest award. The choreography for Lubovitch’s Crisis Variations was awarded the 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse for Choreography at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. This spring he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from his alma mater, The Juilliard School.
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company is supported, in part, by public funds from 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.
The Black Rose was made possible, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. General Operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The company also acknowledges the generous support of the New York Community Trust, Little One Foundation, McMullan Family Fund, Daniel Neidich & Brooke Garber Fund, O’Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust, Shubert Foundation, USA Projects, A. Woodner Fund, Harkness Foundation for Dance and numerous additional generous individuals, corporations and foundations.
Press contact: Janet Stapleton – 212-633-0016 / [email protected] Digital photos are available upon request.
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