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NOVEMBER 30, 2009
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2010 NYC season to be at the Joyce Theater Feb 23-Mar 7
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Coltrane's Favorite Things. (Photo by Chris Callis).
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The Lubovitch company will present its 2010 NYC season at the Joyce Theater from February 23 through March 7. This 2-week engagement – featuring 3 programs – marks only the second time in the company’s 41-year history that the company has ever presented a season at the Joyce. We wanted you to be the first to know that tickets will go on sale to the general public tomorrow – December 1st.
The centerpiece of the 2010 season will be the world premiere of Coltrane’s Favorite Things, completing Lubovitch’s jazz trilogy. The new work will join two previous works – the wildly popular Elemental Brubeck, and the passionate Nature Boy: Kurt Elling. Other programs will feature the New York premiere of Cryptoglyph, and the critically acclaimed all-male trio, Little Rhapsodies.
- February 23-28: Program A (jazz trilogy) - Elemental Brubeck, Nature Boy: Kurt Elling, Coltrane's Favorite Things
- March 2-4: Program B – Cryptoglyph, Little Rhapsodies, and additional repertory (TBD)
- March 5-7: Program C - Coltrane’s Favorite Things, Cryptoglyph, Nature Boy: Kurt Elling
Performance times are as follows: TUE/WED at 7:30pm, THU/FRI/SAT at 8:00pm, SUN at 2:00pm & 7:30pm. All programs are, of course, subject to change.
Performances are at the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at West 19th Street) in New York City. Tickets start as low as $10 and can be purchased by calling Joyce Charge at 212-242-0800, in person at the Box Office (Monday - Friday 12-6pm), or online at www.joyce.org. The Joyce Theater has updated its pricing structure to help make dance accessible to a wider audience, and has also instituted a dynamic pricing system. Ticket buyers are encouraged to purchase early for the best prices and seating availability. All prices are subject to change.
For more complete info click here.
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Season to feature world premiere of Coltrane's Favorite Things
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Attila "Joey" Csiki, Kyle Robinson, and Christopher Vo in Coltrane's Favorite Things. (Photo by Chris Callis).
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The company is at work creating (and seeking underwriting for) Coltrane’s Favorite Things, the third and final dance of Lubovitch's jazz trilogy. The completed dance (and the trilogy as a whole) will have its world premiere at the company’s upcoming NYC season at the Joyce from February 23 – March 7, 2010.
Lubovitch’s inspiration for the new dance comes from two of the 20th century’s iconic contemporary American artists – Jackson Pollock and John Coltrane. Lubovitch is creating a choreographic counterpart to Pollock’s action painting and Coltrane’s improvisational musical style. The work is being set to John Coltrane’s iconic free jazz interpretation of the classic Richard Rodgers song My Favorite Things (a mesmerizing interpretation of the popular tune), and the dance will be performed by nine dancers before a large reproduction of Pollock’s masterwork, Autumn Rhythm. The company is planning a series of free-to-the-public talks throughout January that will explore the inspiration behind the new dance.
The other two dances comprising the company’s jazz trilogy are the wildly popular Elemental Brubeck (2005) and the passionate Nature Boy: Kurt Elling (2005), formerly titled Love’s Stories. When that dance first premiered, the Chicago Tribune hailed the dance for "evoking Broadway tradition and simultaneously upending it...[The dance] is both sensuous and ugly, old-fashioned and callously hip...a terrific new piece and a keg of amatory dynamite."
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Gala on Feb 23 at the Rubin Museum of Art to celebrate opening night and the world premiere
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Javon Jackson.
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SAVE THE DATE – On Feb 23 the company’s board and benefit committee will celebrate both the Opening Night of the company’s 2-week Joyce Theater engagement and the world premiere of Lubovitch’s latest dance with a two-part Gala at the Rubin Museum of Art (West 17th Street at Seventh Avenue).
The star-studded benefit committee includes F. Murray Abraham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dave Brubeck, Dick Button, Mihail Chemiakin, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Robin Cousins, Kurt Elling, Bill Irwin, James Lapine, Wynton Marsalis, Terrence McNally and Bernadette Peters.
The Gala will begin at 5:30pm at the Rubin Museum with a light supper before the performance, followed at 7:30pm at the Joyce with the opening night performance, and culminating at 9:00pm at the Rubin Museum with a dessert and after-party with Lar Lubovitch and the dancers, with jazz performed by Javon Jackson.
Tickets for the February 23rd Opening Night Gala are priced at $250, $500 and $1,000. To purchase Gala tickets or for more information, call the Lubovitch company at 212.221.7909 or click here.
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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 41 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.
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