Lar Lubovitch: A Golden Anniversary

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

Men's Stories: A Concerto in Ruin (Lar Lubovitch)

The Legend of Ten (Lar Lubovitch)

Something About Night (Lar Lubovitch)

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Anne Souder, Dancer

Abdiel Jacobsen, Dancer

Contemporary escapism at New York City Ballet

Carla Escoda, 1st May

A longtime NYCB fan favorite, Concerto DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky, meets the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Continuum. But the evening belonged to corps dancer Ruby Lister in Edwaard Liang’s Distant Cries.

****1

Lar Lubovitch’s Othello is Shakespeare meets drambalet at ABT

Ivy Lin, 6th March

In spite of somewhat limited dance vocabulary, American Ballet Theatre showcased its strength in dance actors presenting a very enjoyable Othello in New York.

***11

Balanchine's Baiser de la fée still doesn't work

Ivy Lin, 19th September

Divertimento from Le Baiser de la fée is revived infrequently. It is an odd ballet, as if Balanchine’s couldn’t quite resolve his troubles choreographing to this piece.

****1

New York City Center’s Fall for Dance 2020

Ivy Lin, 29th October

New York City Center’s annual Fall for Dance festival heads online in a pair of programs, one much stronger than the other.

****1

ABT's Othello

Carla Escoda, 19th May

American Ballet Theatre revives Lar Lubovitch's 1997 Othello with Marcelo Gomes, Julie Kent, James Whiteside, and Stella Abrera in the lead roles. Unfortunately, the formidable dancing and acting could not survive the calamitous score.

**111

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.

***11

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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.

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