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...high school. At 14 he joined Koleda, a local, semiprofessional Balkan dance group, where he stomped out the folkloric rhythms. Three years later he went to Madrid and spent six months studying flamenco. After he returned to the U.S. his performing experience continued to be wildly varied: Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld. He never stayed anywhere very long. His own group began coming together five years ago. Like their leader, most Morris dancers are not built along strict classical lines. For one thing, they must be strong. In his choreography, everybody lifts everybody else, men and women alike...
...commercials unbashedly make Mobil's point of view quite clear. Featuring, besides the American Ballet Theater, such performers as the Pilobolus dancers, Shields and Yarnell, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in roles as animals and other fable characters, they present allegories for modern business situations that cannot be considered "subtle." The fables are hard-driving. One declares that "nothing cripples innovation and enterprise like heavy-handed regulation." Another describes an ideal society of animals, played by Lar Lubovitch dancers in sparkling and outlandish costumes. The storyteller for the three-minute dance-and-cartoon visual presentation tells of an elephant...
...series of Mobil newspaper ads, has enlisted such talents as the American Ballet Theater and Mimes Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell to act out his messages. One of the most elaborate of the spots, the tale of a misunderstood elephant, combines cartoon animation, costumed frolicking by the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and a clever voice-over (see box). In another, the A.B.T. dances out the story of a squirrel who was good at finding nuts...
...states. Its members draw from the nation's best: the New York City Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, and others. On Friday night the program will feature "Tom Dula," a bluegrass folk ballad, "Allegro Brillante," choreographed by George Balanchine, and "Valley," choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. On Saturday night works of Michael Uthoff (the Hartford Ballet's artistic director), including his evocative interpretation of the "Prodigal Son," will be presented...
...Whirligogs," an early work, exhibits the same concerns. Lubovitch, exploring the ways shape and emotional suggestion interrelate, relies on representational gesture just verging on the abstract. Accompanied by Berio's voice collage "Sinfonia," black-hooded dancers appear, then a man and woman in bared dress. The hooded dancers return unmasked, later reappearing disguised, only to toss their masks defiantly to the side, and then again appear as dark spirits surrounding and overwhelming the lovers. Lubovitch uses his costume flexibly, allowing the masks to suggest rather than to define possibilities. He realizes the unanticipated. As a voice in flat monotone recites...