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JULY 20, 2009
Lubovitch Company Featured at the Chicago Dancing Festival
Lubovitch Completes Jazz Trilogy: Coltrane's Favorite Things
eBay Silent Auction Benefits Lubovitch Company


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Lubovitch Company Featured at the Chicago Dancing Festival
McGinnis, Katsuyoshi, Skarpetowska, Bolles, Franke, Csiki in Jangle. Photo: Sharen Bradford
McGinnis, Katsuyoshi, Skarpetowska, Bolles, Franke, Csiki in Jangle. Photo: Sharen Bradford

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company is returning to the Chicago Dancing Festival for its third year of performances. The festival, co-created and directed by Lar Lubovitch, offers four free performances where dancers from 16 of the country’s greatest companies share the stage at Chicago’s Millennium Park from August 19-23, 2009. The program includes performances from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theater, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Joffery Ballet, Les Ballets Grandia, Luna negra, and New York City Ballet.

The Lubovitch Company will be performing three times during the festival. We will be hosting a performance and lecture-demonstration of Duets at the Art Institute of Chicago, presenting Lubovitch’s Jangle created last year as part of our 40th Anniversary Tour at the Harris Theater, and previewing our newest work, Coltrane's Favorite Things at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

We invite you to join us on our trip to Chicago as we continue to grow into Chicago’s cultural scene. The trip includes tickets to two sold out performances of the festival, invitations to exclusive Chicago Dancing Festival Patron’s receptions for both performances accompanied by Lar Lubovitch, private tours of the Driehaus Museum and the new Joffrey Ballet Building, and a guided tour of the newest wing to the Art Institute of Chicago. Optional accommodations can also be arranged at amazingly low costs at the Palmer House on Chicago’s stimulating Michigan Avenue.

Join us for the weekend in our celebration of dance in Chicago. For more information or to reserve your place for this exciting opportunity to attend the Chicago Dancing Festival with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, email us at Lubovitch@aol.com or call 212-221-7909. Tickets are very limited and time is short.

Lubovitch Completes Jazz Trilogy: Coltrane's Favorite Things
Rigert, Morinoue, Malone & Jimenez in Elemental Brubeck. Photo: Rose Eichenbaum
Rigert, Morinoue, Malone & Jimenez in Elemental Brubeck. Photo: Rose Eichenbaum
Lar Lubovitch and the company are entering into an exciting artistic period working on an entirely new work. The piece, entitled Coltrane’s Favorite Things, will complete Lubovitch’s series of dances investigating and re-imaging the choreographic possibilities of jazz, and will be set to a recording of John Coltrane’s iconic interpretation of the Richard Rodgers song, “My Favorite Things.” The dance is being created for nine dancers. Lubovitch intends to respond to both Jackson Pollock’s paintings and to Coltrane’s jazz improvisations. Lubovitch will use the dual (and often competing) creative tools of control and chance that were likewise hallmarks of the artistry of both Pollock and Coltrane. In the dance, Lubovitch will capture the same freeness and seemingly impulsive quality embodied in both the paintings and the music.

Four individuals have made major gifts to become commissioners of Coltrane’s Favorite Things. The company is still in need of additional financial support in order to fully realize Lubovitch’s vision for this work. If you would like to become a commissioner please contact Richard Caples at Lubovitch@aol.com or by phone at 212-217-7909. Donations of any size can be made by visiting nycharities.org. We hope you consider making a gift to bring this work to full.

Coltrane’s Favorite Things will have a public preview at the Chicago Dancing Festival on August 22 at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. More information about the festival is listed above. Finally, the world premiere performance of Coltrane’s Favorite Things will be during the company’s two-week season at the Joyce Theater in February and March 2010.

eBay Silent Auction Benefits Lubovitch Company
Me & Ro 18K Gold Lotus Necklace
Me & Ro 18K Gold Lotus Necklace

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company is holding an eBay silenct auction featuring fine art, jewelry, cosmetics- and more. With the help of Mission Fish, the company will place the items up for auction, with all of the proceeds going toward our programs. Please peruse the list of items available below and log on to eBay to place your bids. Hurry! The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company auction lasts now until 12:00 PM on Monday, July 27th.

· Beauty Products Gift Basket from Clydes Chemists

· Me & Ro Lotus 18K Gold Necklace

· Lee Angle Necklace Broach & Earring Set

·Tickets to Next Wave Festival at BAM

· 4 Tickets to Caramoor Center Weekend Concert

· 4 Framed Photos from Moscow one, two, three, four

· Agatha Ruiz de la Prada collage

· Carlisle Collection Sweater Set

· Baby Gift Basket from Go Baby

· Lar Lubovitch, Dance Lift Photograph

· Lar Lubovitch Couple Embrace Photograph

· Lar Lubovitch “Othello” Ballet Photograph

· Cristel Trag etching of male nude

· “Chiseled Gold I” Jeffrey Brosk Wood Sculpture

· Jeffrey Brosk Wood & Slate Wall Sculpture


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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 40 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 Lubovitch 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 American Mastepieces: Dance, Irene Diamond Fund, Brooke Garber & Daniel Neidich Fund, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Joyce Theater Foundation, McMullan Family Foundation, National Dance Project, Rudolf Nureyev Dance 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, Americans for the Arts and the Arts & Business Council of New York.