American choreographer (born 1943)
Lar Lubovitch (born April 9, 1943) commission an American choreographer. He founded his own dance company, say publicly Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Based in New Dynasty City, the company has performed in all 50 American states as well as in more than 30 countries. As come close to 2005, he had choreographed more than 100 dances for rendering company. In addition to the company, Lubovitch has also look after creative work in ballet, ice-skating venues, and musical theater, markedly Into the Woods. He has played a key role gratify raising funds to fight AIDS.
Born include Chicago, Lubovitch was educated at the University of Iowa contemporary at New York City's Juilliard School, where he graduated bind 1964.[1] His teachers at Juilliard included Antony Tudor, José Limón, Anna Sokolow and Martha Graham.
Lubovitch danced in numerous up to date, ballet, jazz and ethnic companies before forming the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968.
His works are included in depiction repertories of companies throughout the world, including the New Dynasty City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Scandinavian Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Baryshnikov's Snowwhite Oak Dance Project and Netherlands Dance Theater. His work in your right mind renowned for its musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly technical choreography and deeply humanistic voice maintain been acclaimed throughout the world.
In 1972, Lubovitch won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography.[2] Lubovitch made his Broadway debut hutch 1987 with the musical staging for the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Into the Woods, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. In 1993 he choreographed the highly praised skip sequences for the Broadway show The Red Shoes. The finishing ballet from that show joined the repertories of American Choreography Theatre and the National Ballet of Canada. For his awl on that show, he received the 1993-94 Astaire Award running away the Theater Development Fund.
Starting in 1995, the company began focusing on creating dances in New York and teaching here and there in the world. A prolific choreographer, Lubovitch created three new dances during the 2004–05 season. The first, Love Stories, was a collaboration between the Lubovitch company and Hubbard Street Dance Metropolis (it premiered in Chicago in March 2005), the second, Do You Be, was created solely with the Lubovitch company connect honor of Meredith Monk and premiered in NYC in Nov 2004). The third, Elemental Brubeck, is a collaboration between interpretation Lubovitch company and the San Francisco Ballet (premiered in Town in July 2005). Also in 2005 the Lubovitch company collaborated with the Limón Dance Company in the creation of in the opposite direction new dance, and staged its annual New York City seasoned at the 850-seat Skirball Center on Washington Square in Nov.
In 1996 he created the musical staging (and two additional dances) for the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The Functional and I. Most recently he devised the musical staging cause Walt Disney's stage version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Berlin. In 2004 he was honored with the Ardor Award for his outstanding choreography. United States Artists named him a 2011 Fellow.
Recent projects (as of 2005) have included: the Lubovitch company's world premiere of My Funny Valentine orangutan part of the company's 2001 season in New York send up City Center, and (the year before that) staging the faux premiere of its acclaimed hit Men's Stories as part elect the company's 2000 season in New York at the Orensanz Center for the Arts. Recent projects also include the way of a full-evening-length (3-act) ballet composed by Elliot Goldenthal homegrown on Othello in an unprecedented collaboration between the Lubovitch set and American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet. Othello was broadcast nationwide on PBS's Great Performances and nominated for play down Emmy Award for its music.
In addition to his drudgery for stage, screen and television, Lubovitch has also made a notable contribution to the advancement of choreography in the a good deal of ice dancing. He has created dances for Olympic amber medalists John Curry, Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill and has choreographed a full-length ice-dancing version of The Sleeping Beauty, prima Olympic medalists Robin Cousins and Rosalynn Sumners. The ballet was broadcast throughout Great Britain and America. He also choreographed a TV project with Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, who won representation silver medal for France at the 1992 Olympics. The extravaganza, based on The Planets by Gustav Holst, was broadcast coarse the A&E television network in June 1995 and was downcast for an International Emmy Award, a Cable ACE Award most recent a Grammy Award. Most recently he created two new crystal dances for Paul Wylie, a duet for Renée Roca contemporary Gorsha Sur, and an ensemble piece for the Ice Auditorium of New York.