Something About Night

Lar Lubovitch trained at The Juilliard School and founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in NYC in 1968, and over the course of 56 years, it has gained an international reputation as one of America’s top dance companies. Lubovitch’s dances have been performed by many other major dance companies throughout the world. Othello – A Dance in Three Acts, created in collaboration with American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet, was featured on PBS’s “Great Performances” (Emmy nomination). Film & television dances include Fandango (International Emmy), My Funny Valentine for Robert Altman’s film The Company (American Choreography Award nomination) and, Concerto Six Twenty-two and North Star for BBC. His contribution to the advancement of ice-dancing includes concert pieces for numerous Olympic skaters, as well as ice-dance specials for television: The Sleeping Beauty (PBS), The Planets (A&E) (International Emmy nomination, Cable Ace Award, Grammy Award). Broadway credits include Into the Woods (Tony nomination), The Red Shoes (Astaire Award) and Tony Award-winning revival of The King and I. In 1987, he conceived Dancing for Life which took place at Lincoln Center’s NY State Theater. It was the first response by the dance community to the AIDS crisis, raising over one million dollars. In 2007, Lubovitch founded the Chicago Dancing Festival. For 10 seasons the festival provided free performances by leading American dance companies and reached over 18,000 people annually. In 2016, he premiered a new evening-length ballet, The Bronze Horseman, at the Mikhailovsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2014, he was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Dance at UC/Irvine. Some recent awards include: 2007, Chicagoan of the Year (Chicago Tribune); 2008, Chicagoan of the Year (Chicago Magazine); 2011, Ford Fellow (US Artists); 2011, Dance/USA Honors Award; 2012, Prix Benois de la Danse for Choreography, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; 2013, American Dance Guild Lifetime Achievement Award; 2014, Honorary Doctorate from The Juilliard School; 2015, named one of America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition; 2016, ADF Scripps Award for Lifetime Achievement; 2016 Dance Magazine Award; 2018 Martha Graham Award; and 2024 Honorary Doctorate from Boston Conservatory.