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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Skirball Center, NYC April 17-21, 2007 Reviewed by Susan Yung Pictured: Rasta Thomas, Sean Stewart, Jay Franke in �Little Rhapsodies� Photo by Nan Melville Courtesy: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Lar Lubovitch has created some new dances that feel as if they spring from a more romantic, idealistic, and yet timeless era. One of the choreographer’s […]

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Washington Square United Methodist Church New York, New York May 11–22, 2004 Reviewed by Susan Yung No contemporary choreographer can craft purely beautiful movement like Lar Lubovitch, whose organic, swirling passages of classically infused modern seem to miraculously sculpt the dancers into breathtaking tableaux. In fact, the greatest challenge for Lubovitch […]

Celebrating Lar

Dance educators talk about Lubovitch’s profound influence.   Nancy Colahan, left, and Christine Wright in Lubovitch’s A Brahms Symphony. Photo by Lois Greenfield. When listening to dancers talk about Lar Lubovitch’s work, one often hears that it just feels good. Take this sentiment, from Marcus Schulkind, who performed with Lubovitch in the mid-1970s: “Of all […]

Lar Still Going Far

Ten years ago, Lar Lubovitch discovered a 90-second film of a solo he made as a student at the University of Iowa. An early 1960s audition film for the Juilliard School, it provided a microcosmic view of a choreographic career to come. “I was reminded that I knew something intuitively that need never be abandoned,” […]

How George Mason University Became a Draw for the Biggest Names in Contemporary Dance

No matter how rigorous a curriculum, it’s difficult to create college experiences that truly simulate the day-to-day life of professional dancers. The School of Dance at Mason (George Mason University) in Fairfax, Virginia, however, is proving it’s possible. By the time dancers graduate from Mason’s BFA program, they will have participated in at least one […]