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Lar Lubovitch’s extensive experience in ballet and modern dance – and his major influences from movies and Broadway musicals – inform his choreography for a swinging celebration of 1960’s teenagers in Elemental Brubeck. This lively display joyously evokes memories of some of the greatest moments of American dance on film as expressed by celebrated dancers like Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Bob Fosse John Alleyne

CANADIAN PREMIERE

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at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
on November 22, 23, 24 @ 8 pm
& November 24 @ 2pm

CHOREOGRAPHY Lar Lubovitch
MUSIC Dave Brubeck

In this Canadian premiere of Elemental Brubeck, American choreographer Lar Lubovitch sets his poetic, lyrical choreography to a jazz score. The work appropriates three pieces from the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1963 album Time Changes: Iberia. Lubovitch’s choreography combines aspects of bebop and early 20th century American dance on film with a modern, athletic sensibility.

I'm doing bebop but I'm also playing with it, commenting on that style and behaviour that goes with it Lar Lubovitch

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CHOREOGRAPHY Serge Bennathan
MUSIC Arne Eigenfeldt

Set to Arne Eigenfeldt’s haunting, melodic score, In and Around Kozla Street touches on the desperate lives of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Canadian choreographer Serge Bennathan describes his work as a “poetic metaphor on courage.

Backed by Vancouver composer Arne Eigenfeldt’s taut score, Kozla Street is a masterful study in heroism and frailty.Dance International

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World Premiere

CHOREOGRAPHY Simone Orlando
MUSIC Maurice Ravel

This world premiere of Ballet British Columbia dancer and choreographer Simone Orlando's REALM OF HER ECLIPSE.
Simone is the recipient of The Banff Centre’s 2006 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award. She has been praised for her mature and sensitive ideas, her musicality, her vision, and her delineation of movement and space.

When you find yourself clutching your heart and your eyes brimming with tears, you know you’ve been completely moved…[Simone Orlando is]…one of the brightest stars rising in the choreographic world Capital News