Forty years ago, Lar Lubovitch started his own modern-dance company in New York City, and continues to enjoy popular and critical acclaim around the globe. While he’s watched many dance trends come and go, Lubovitch’s own lush aesthetic has remained constant, entrancing audiences with waves of passionate movement performed by dancers whose technical rigor complements their open-hearted expansiveness.
Recognized as one of the nation’s leading modern-dance choreographers, Lubovitch has also created choreography for jazz-dance companies, ballet troupes, Broadway shows and Olympic-medalist ice dancers. But it’s Lubovitch’s poetic modern-dance works, imbued with his singular musicality that audiences have enjoyed for decades.
Choreographed in 1986 by Lubovitch, Concerto Six Twenty-Two will exhilarate audiences with an inventive portrayal of male dance duets, combining formality with playfulness and sophistication with verve. “Repeatedly, the new choreography produces new steps, new movement, new patterns, new twists on highly sophisticated formal structures -- and all with a vibrantly alive human passion that emanates from the dancers at every moment. Why beat around the bush? The truth is that this is what dance is really about. " Kisselgoff, The New York Times.
The soft brightness and sepia tones of Dvorak Serenade result in the impassioned response of four movements from Dvorak’s melodic “Serenade in E Major.” The two lead dancers, Drew Jacoby and Scott Rink, guide a springy quartet and a corps of six dancers who swirl around in unexpected patterns serving as a shifting tidal background. Working in unison, the ensemble displays various types of bodies and varieties of attack, turning the work into a humanistic statement.
Lubovitch’s new piece titled Jangle: Four Hungarian Dances features the company costumed in casual street wear reacting to folk-tinged pieces by Bartok. Ranging from twirling figures with upheld arms to wild flights and unconventional lifts, the robust piece is surely on its way as another masterwork by Lar Lubovitch.
Evening's Program
Concerto Six Twenty-TwoJangle: Four Hungarian DancesDvorak Serenade
Critic's Comments
“[The pieces] demonstrate Lubovitch’s musicality, plus his gift for creating clever steps and filling the stage with patterns that swirl and reconfigure like an errant constellation viewed in speeded-up time.” —The Village Voice
Past Performances at Northrop
1977, 1983, 2008