choreography Lar Lubovitch
light design Jack Mehler

 

dancers
Jonathan E. Alsberry, Reid Bartelme, Jonathan Campbell, Nicole Corea, Attila Joey Csiki, Jenna Fakhoury, Brian McGinnis, Laura Rutledge, Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Christopher Vo

artistic director / choreographer Lar Lubovitch
executive director Richard J. Caples
production stage manager Maxine Glorsky
lighting director Jack Mehler
company manager Leticia D. Baratta
director of marketing and development Thomas Ward
educational director Clare Cook
wardrobe manager Molly McKee Culp
public relation & press representative Janet Stapleton

Lar Lubovitch re-imagines the choreographic possibilities of jazz with this program of three distinctive works. In Coltrane’s Favorite Things, Lubovitch’s quicksilver choreography pushes, spins and flings his accomplished dancers through the air into ever-changing patterns and kaleidoscopic movement, set to John Coltrane’s iconic rendition of Richard Rodgers’ classic song, My Favorite Things. Nature Boy: Kurt Elling is a collection of romantic duets set to Elling’s sensual, mysterious interpretations of great American torch songs. Elemental Brubeck references and captures the spirit of the great moments of American dance on film, utilizing the unique symphonic jazz compositions of Dave Brubeck, as recorded on his 1963 album Time Changes.

 

The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company was founded in 1968. Over the past 42 years it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s best dance companies. Celebrated for both its choreographic excellence and its unsurpassed dancing, the company has created more than 100 new dances and performed before millions throughout the United States and in more than 30 foreign countries.

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 and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Company also acknowledges the generous support of the Harkness Foundation for Dance, McMullan Family Fund, Brooke Garber & Daniel Neidich Foundation, Rudolph Nureyev Foundation for Dance, Jerome Robbins Foundation, and the A. Woodner Fund.

Lar Lubovitch is one of America’s most versatile, popular and widely seen choreographers. He founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company 42 years ago. Based in New York City, the company has performed throughout the world. Lar Lubovitch’s dances have also been performed by many other major companies. His dances on film include Othello (broadcast throughout the U.S. on PBS’s “Great Performances” and nominated for an Emmy Award), Fandango (winner of an International Emmy Award) and My Funny Valentine for the Robert Altman film The Company, (for which Lubovitch was nominated for an American Choreography Award). Mr 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 one-hour ice-dances 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 co-founded the Chicago Dancing Festival with Jay Franke. The Festival is a series of performances and lectures that takes place in August at the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harris Theater, and Chicago’s Millennium Park. The Chicago Dancing Festival reaches about 12,000 audience members annually and showcases some of the country’s best dance companies for free. In 2007, Lubovitch was named “Chicagoan of Year” by The Chicago Tribune, and in 2008, Lubovitch and Jay Franke were named by Chicago Magazine as “Chicagoans of the Year” for their efforts with the Festival.

choreography Lar Lubovitch     
music recording John Coltrane Quartet’s live performance of Richard Rodgers’ My Favorite Things -
music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
lighting Jack Mehler

duet Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Jonathan E. Alsberry
quartet Nicole Corea, Brian McGinnis, Laura Rutledge, Reid Bartelme
trio Jonathan Campbell, Attila Joey Csiki, Christopher Vo

choreography Lar Lubovitch
music recording Kurt Elling
lighting Jack Mehler
costumes L. Isaac

choreography Lar Lubovitch
music recording Dave Brubeck
lighting Jack Mehler
costumes Ann Hould-Ward
costume construction Barbara Matera Ltd 

solo Attila Joey Csiki
combo Jenna Fahkoury, Brian McGinnis, Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Christopher Vo, Nicole Corea, Jonathan E. Alsberry, Laura Rutledge, Reid Bartelme