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Lar Lubovitch Celebrates Golden Anniversary at The Joyce

By Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 22 April 2018
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“He reveals thematic content and subtle textures in his choreography thereby making the music visible”
Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 20 April 2018
Programme
Men's Stories: A Concerto in Ruin (Lar Lubovitch)
The Legend of Ten (Lar Lubovitch)
Something About Night (Lar Lubovitch)
Performers
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Anne Souder, Dancer
Abdiel Jacobsen, Dancer
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Lar Lubovitch's shapely choreography a good mix of trite and appropriately mystifying
Rachel Rizzuto, 9th October
In the Joyce Theater’s Wednesday night program for the 45th anniversary of Lar Lubovitch’s company, Mr Lubovitch presented three duets – bits of fluff, really – and one enigmatic piece for nine men that has left me bewildered and yet decidedly in favor of it.
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Rachel Rizzuto, 9th October
In the Joyce Theater’s Wednesday night program for the 45th anniversary of Lar Lubovitch’s company, Mr Lubovitch presented three duets – bits of fluff, really – and one enigmatic piece for nine men that has left me bewildered and yet decidedly in favor of it.
***11
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Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn
Andrew is currently a professional chef in New York City but he began life as a ballet dancer with the Hartford and Ohio Ballet companies. His writing also appears on the Huffington Post Blog and BroadwayWorld.com. His latest work, nominated for a James Beard Award, is “Return to the Rivers”, a Himalayan cookbook.