Auditorium Theatre 2019-2020 Alvin Ailey

8 | ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER | MARCH 4-8, 2020 THURSDAY, MARCH 5 @ 7:30PM and SUNDAY, MARCH 8 @ 3PM FANDANGO (1990, Ailey premiere 1995) Choreography by Lar Lubovitch Rehearsal Associates: Nicole Corea, Clifton Brown Music by Maurice Ravel Costumes Redesigned for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater by Jon Taylor Original Lighting by Craig Miller Lighting Redesigned for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater by Clifton Taylor Danica Paulos, Clifton Brown Fandango was made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lar Lubovitch trained at The Juilliard School and founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in NYC in 1968. Over the course of 51 years, it has gained an international reputation as one of America’s top dance companies. Mr. 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 and 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) and 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), the Tony Award-winning revival of The King and I . In 1987, he conceived Dancing for Life , which took place at Lincoln Center’s New York 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 more than 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 the University of California-Irvine. He was named a Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune in 2007 and by Chicago Magazine in 2008. In 2011, he was named as a Ford Fellow by United States Artists, and was named one of America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2013. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate from The Juilliard School. Awards include the Dance/USA Honors Award (2011); the Prix Benois de la Danse for Choreography (2012); the American Dance Guild Lifetime Achievement Award (2014); the ADF Scripps Award for Lifetime Achievement (2016); a Dance Magazine Award (2016); and a Martha Graham Award (2018). INTERMISSION PROGRAM B