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Lar Lubovitch Company 45th Anniversary Season October 8–20, 2013 The Joyce Theater

Updated: September 11, 2013 – The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company celebrates its 45th anniversary with a two- week engagement at The Joyce Theater, Tuesday, October 8 to Sunday, October 20, 2013. The season will feature two premieres ― Vez, a reimagining of Lar Lubovitch’s 1989 work Fandango, with revised and a newly commissioned score by Randall Woolf, and Crazy 8’s, a second premiere also to music by Randall Woolf ― along with selections from the company’s remarkable repertoire of more than 100 . All programs will feature live music.

Program A (Tuesday, October 8 to Sunday, October 13) will include the world premiere of Vez, a duet set to a commissioned score by Woolf for voice and guitar that will be performed live; the wildly popular Men’s Stories: A Concerto in Ruin (2000), a work for nine men set to an original score by Scott Marshall; a duet from Lubovitch’s acclaimed work Concerto Six Twenty-Two (1986), set to Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra; and a revival of The Time Before The Time After (1970), a striking duet that has not been performed by the company in 30 years, set to Stravinsky’s Concertino for String Quartet.

Program B (Tuesday, October 15 to Sunday, October 20) will feature Crazy 8’s, a new work for eight dancers set to music by Woolf; Lubovitch’s recently premiered As Sleep Befell (2013), a dance for six men with a score by Paola Prestini, performed live by Le Train Bleu, and conducted by Ransom Wilson; and Lubovitch’s award- winning Crisis Variations (2011), with an original score by Yevgeniy Sharlat. The program also includes Lubovitch’s beautiful and moving Transparent Things (2012), inspired by Picasso’s “Family of Saltimbanques” and set to Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, played live by The Bryant Park Quartet; and Listen (2013), choreographed by longtime company member Katarzyna Skarpetowska, with music by Paola Prestini.

The company’s thirteen dancers are: Jonathan E. Alsberry, Anthony Bocconi, Clifton Brown, Nicole Corea, Attila Joey Csiki, Tobin Del Cuore, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Reed Luplau, Brian McGinnis, Milan Misko, Laura Rutledge, John Michael Schert, and Katarzyna Skarpetowska.

Program A will be presented Tuesday, October 8 to Sunday, October 13, and Program B will be presented Tuesday, October 15 to Sunday, October 20. Performances both weeks are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm (except for the 7pm opening night gala on Tuesday, October 8), Thursday and Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets range from $10 to $59. Prices are subject to change. Tickets can be purchased by calling JOYCECHARGE at 212-242-0800, or online at www.joyce.org. For information and to purchase tickets to the opening night gala on October 8, please call 212-221-7909. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street) in New York City.

About the Company The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company was founded in 1968. Over the past 45 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 40 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 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, , 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 (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. Lubovitch was awarded the 2012 for Choreography at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow for his dance Crisis Variations.

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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. 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 New York Community Trust, Little One Foundation, McMullan Family Fund, Daniel Neidich and Brooke Garber Fund, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Shubert Foundation, USA Projects, A. Woodner Fund, Harkness Foundation for Dance and numerous additional generous individuals, corporations and foundations. As Sleep Befell was commissioned in part by lead commissioners Ronald E. Creamer, Lewis R. Steinberg, and Melville “Mickey” & Leila Straus. Listen was commissioned in part by supporting commissioners Melville “Mickey” & Leila Straus. Transparent Things was commissioned in part by lead commissioners Ronald E. Creamer Jr. & Min Kyoung Kim, and David Herro & Jay Franke, and by supporting commissioners Elysabeth Kleinhans, and Bernard & Evelyn Tobin.

For more information about the company, please visit www.lubovitch.org.

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