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ANNOUNCING LAR LUBOVITCH 2007 SEASON
APRIL 17-21 AT THE NYU SKIRBALL CENTER

ONE WEEK, THREE PREMIERES, PLUS A GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE LIMON DANCE COMPANY


Celebrate spring at the Skirball Center

Premium seating for Friends of Lar

Recordare returns

39th anniversary gala on April 20

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Request invitation to April 20 gala

Celebrate spring at the Skirball Center

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The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company – termed a “national treasure” by Variety – celebrates its 39th anniversary with a week of performances at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Tuesday-Saturday, April 17-21.

Our 2007 season features the premieres of three new Lubovitch works that explore an intriguing range of moods and musical styles. There’s the world premiere of Little Rhapsodies, a series of character studies set to piano etudes by Robert Schumann – and accompanied live by concert pianist Pedja Muzijevic.

The company premiere of Love's Stories moves to a jazz beat, with Lubovitch spinning tales of passion and heartbreak to singer Kurt Elling’s unique interpretations of classic American love songs.  Another world premiere, Dvorak Serenade, features lush, sculptural patterns inspired by that composer’s romantic Op. 22 for strings.

Premium seating for Friends of Lar

As one of the recipients of the Lubovitch company newsletter, you are eligible for preferred seating during our April season at the Skirball Center. Simply give the code "4FOL" when you order your tickets -- and the box office will give you access to a block of premium seat locations specially reserved for our company's closest friends.

To order your Friends of Lar tickets, call TICKET CENTRAL at 212.279.4200, or click here to order on-line. Remember to give the preferred seating code "4FOL."

Recordare returns

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On April 19 and 20, Limón Dance Company will join the Lubovitch season to perform Lar's critically-acclaimed Recordare. Created in 2005 as an homage to José Limón, Recordare is a comic and celebratory work themed around Mexico’s Day of the Dead, and danced to a modernist score by Elliot Goldenthal. At the time of its world premiere, the Washington Post declared that "Life and death are clasped in a tipsy waltz in Lar Lubovitch’s Recordare (‘Remember’), a boisterous yet ultimately softhearted work," while the Boston Globe termed the work "vibrant, colorful, and irreverent." Now, for two performances only, Recordare will share the stage with the Lubovitch company's 2007 premieres.

39th anniversary gala on April 20
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You are cordially invited to join Lar and the company for our spring gala, paying tribute to 39 years of great dance -- and kicking off the countdown to a year of special programming to mark our 40th anniversary in 2008.

Instead of three cheers, our Friday fete on April 20 features three events. The evening begins with a cocktail reception/silent auction at the Mimi Ferzt Gallery in SoHo from 6 to 8 PM.  Next up is the company's performance at the Skirball Center from 8 to 9:45 PM. After the curtain call, our benefit moves on to a dinner at Churrascaria Plataforma in TriBeCa from 9:45 ‘til midnight. Tickets for the event are priced as follows:

$250 FRIEND: reception and performance (very good seats) – $125 tax-deductible.
$500 PATRON: reception, performance (even better seats) and dinner – $250 deductible.
$1,000 BENEFACTOR: the Patron package with the best seats – $750 tax-deductible.

Proceeds from this event will support the company’s creation of new dances, as well as our enrichment programs for students in New York City’s public high schools.

For more information on the April 20 gala, call  212.221.7909 or contact us by e-mail.


Lar Lubovitch Dance Company 
 
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company was founded in 1968.  Over the past 39 years it has gained an international reputation as one of the world's best dance companies.  Celebrated for both its choreographic excellence and for its unsurpassed dancing, the company has created more than 100 new dances and performed before millions of people in virtually every state of America, as well as in more than 30 foreign countries.

Board of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Katherine M. Bristor, President
Richard J. Caples
Thomas C. Clark, President Emeritus
Ruta Jureviciute
Virginia Kinzey, Secretary
Kenneth F. Koen
Lar Lubovitch
W. Patrick McMullan III, Treasurer
Maxine Pollak, Vice President
Dale L. Ponikvar, Vice President
Jeffery Sholeen
Beth D. Tractenberg

In Memorium
Michele G. Falkow

PHOTO CREDITS -- Little Rhapsodies: Photo by Nan Melville. / Recordare: Photo by Rosalie O’Connor. / Gala Invite: Photo by Todd Rosenberg.


LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY

Mission:
The Lubovitch company was created to realize the artistic vision of Lar Lubovitch, one of the foremost contemporary choreographers in the United States.  The company exists: (1) to create new work; (2) to perform those works (and facilitate the performance of those works by others) both in our home base of New York City and around the world; and (3) to teach people of all ages, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds, in order to increase awareness and appreciation of dance.

History:
Over the past 39 years, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company has gained a reputation as one of the world's leading modern dance companies and has performed in virtually every state of the US and in more than 30 foreign countries.  Lar Lubovitch has been cited by The New York Times as "one of the ten best choreographers in the world," and the company has been called a "national treasure" by Variety.  The company is primarily focused on the creation of new dances, sometimes in collaboration with other top companies.

Contact:
The Lubovitch company is located at 229 West 42nd Street, New York NY 10036.  You can reach us at (212) 221-7909 or Lubovitch@aol.com.  Or visit our website at www.lubovitch.org.

Support:
Programs of the Lar Lubovtich Dance Company are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as by Altria, Atlantic Philanthropies, US Trust Company of NY, Irene Diamond Fund, Brooke Garber & Daniel Neidich Fund, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Carl Jacobs Fund, McMullan Family Foundation, Rodgers Family Foundation, Shubert Foundation, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, A. Woodner Fund and numerous additional generous individuals, corporations and foundations.

Memberships:
The Lubovitch company is a member of Dance/USA, Dance/NYC, ART/NY and the Arts & Business Council.