Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek present: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company performs at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, Colorado  January 20, 2009

Graciously underwritten by LaDonna & Gary Wicklund and Mathew Juechter

“One of the 10 best choreographers in the world.” - The New York Times

Lubovitch’s work is renowned for its musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly technical choreography and deeply humanistic voice have been acclaimed throughout the world and his renowned company (which New York Magazine calls “exquisitely talented”) has performed around the United States and the world for 40 years.

Since 1994, the company has primarily focused on creating new dances in New York City and teaching worldwide. The Company recently restaged Lubovitch’s full-length ballet Othello for American Ballet Theatre. The work was featured at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and the Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. A filmed version of this production was broadcast on PBS’ “Great Performances” and nominated for an Emmy Award.

A native of Chicago, Lar Lubovitch was educated at the University of Iowa and The Juilliard School in New York City.  He made his Broadway debut in 1987 with the musical staging for the Sondheim/Lapine musical “Into the Woods,” for which he received a Tony Award nomination. In addition to his work for stage, screen and television, Lubovitch has also made significant contributions to the advancement of choreography in ice skating; working with gold medalists John Curry, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Robin Cousins and Rosalynn Sumners. He choreographed a TV project with silver medalists Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, based on Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” that was nominated for an International Emmy Award, a CableACE Award and a Grammy Award.

Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.  Additional funding provided by The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and MetLife Foundation.