KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Dick Caples, Executive Director
229 West 42nd St., 8th Floor
New York, NY 10036-7201
212-221-7909 (phone)
212-221-7938 (fax)
lubovitch@aol.com

HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
(name and contact info, relationship to the artist and the work, assessment):
The duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two has been performed all around the world. The dancers in the first video document are Sylvain Lafortune and Edward Hillyer, but the piece has also been performed by Lafortune and Rick Michalek for the Lubovitch company; and by John Gardner and Julio Bocca for American Ballet Theater; Gardner and Mikhail Baryshnikov for the White Oak Dance Project; and Jeffrey Gribler and David Krensing for Pennsylvania Ballet.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
A superb multi-camera document of Concerto Six Twenty-Two is available from the company and at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library:

Concerto Six Twenty-Two and North Star (1988)—compilation video with choreographic excerpts by Lar Lubovitch; telecast on the Dancemakers series, BBC-TV 2, on 5 November; produced and directed by Bob Lockyer and hosted by Judith Mackrell; one 3/4 in. videocassette (48 min.); call number MGZIC 9-2314.

Modern in Ballet: Modern Choreographers for Ballet (1987)—videorecording produced as part of the Eye on Dance series; telecast on 13 March; includes discussion by choreographers Lar Lubovitch and Mark Morris about choreographing modern work for ballet companies; one 3/4 in. videocassette (29 min.); call number MGZIC 9-3008.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
Jack Mitchell has photographed Concerto Six Twenty-Two. Several of his photos are published with the Gary Parks feature story in Dance Magazine (November 1986). At the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library:

Concerto Six Twenty-Two (Lubovitch) / [Photographs]; call number MGZEA.

The photographer Jonathan Atkin photographed the Dancing for Life benefit and holds negatives and contact sheets.

MOVEMENT NOTATION
(location, type [including notes taken by dancers], assessment):
None identified.

PRODUCTION MATERIALS
(scores, sound recordings, set/costume designs):
The sound recording and costumes are maintained by the Lubovitch company.

ORAL HISTORY:
None per se. But the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library does feature these early soundtape interviews:

Lubovitch, Lar (1973)—sound recording of Lar Lubovitch to be used as the basis for a chapter in John Gruen's book, The Private World of Ballet; one sound cassette (73 1/2 min.); call number MGZTC 3-170; for transcript of interview, see: MGZMT 3-170.

Lubovitch, Lar (1975)—sound recording of Lar Lubovitch discussing his early years and training; hosted by John Gruen and broadcast on 17 November by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The Sound of Dance; also includes interview with Judith Jamison [Side B]; one sound cassette (ca. 55 min.); call number MGZTC 3-366 Side A; oral history archive.

Lubovitch, Lar (1975)—sound recording of Lar Lubovitch discussing the relationship of men and women in his choreographic works; interviewed by John Gruen 25 December as background for an article which appeared in Dance Magazine (February 1977: 44-47); one sound cassette (65 min.); call number MGZTC 3-646; for edited transcript of interview see: MGZMT 3-646.

Lubovitch, Lar (1977)—sound recording of Lar Lubovitch discussing his choreographic works Marimba and Les Noces; hosted by John Gruen and broadcast 20 February by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The Sound of Dance; also includes an interview with Felia Doubrovska [Side B]; one sound cassette (ca. 55 min.); call number MGZTC 3-364 Side A.

Lubovitch, Lar (1978)—sound recording of Lar Lubovitch discussing his upcoming New York season; hosted by John Gruen and broadcast 30 April by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The Sound of Dance; one sound cassette (55 min.); call number MGZTC 3-725.

PERSONAL PAPERS
(location of newspaper clippings, printed programs, press releases, notes, files, diaries; assessment):
Lubovitch's papers are maintained in the company's archives. The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library maintains the following clippings file:

Concerto Six Twenty-Two (Lubovitch) [clippings], call number MGZR.

IMMEDIATE NEEDS
(archival assistance? storage? other?):
Dick Caples explains that the company does not focus on past repertory. The company does not tour, in favor of creating and performing new works in New York. The consequence is that, “slowly, gradually, over time these pieces are being forgotten.” Per Caples, it would be especially important to notate the duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two, which is "widely regarded as Lar's signature."

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
None identified.

LIST OR OVERVIEW OF WORKS
(title, premiere date, music, production notes, performers):

Among dozens of dance works choreographed by Lubovitch, the work most closely associated with the AIDS epidemic is:

Concerto Six Twenty-Two (1986)—choreographed by Lubovitch for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company; music by Mozart (Concerto for Clarinet, No. 622); central duet for two men.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Berman, Janice. 1987. "An Evening of Commitment to 'Life'." New York Newsday (7 October).
• Gere. David. forthcoming. How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press).
• Jowitt, Deborah. 1988. "Lar Lubovitch Dance Company." Village Voice (29 March).
• Kisselgoff, Anna. 1987. "Dance: 13 Companies in 'Dancing for Life,' an AIDS Benefit." New York Times (7 October).
• ________. 1993. "The Wider Dimension of Lubovitch's Male Duet." New York Times (13 May).
• ________. 1998. "A Gala That Shows Off Just Why It Is" [review of thirtieth year retrospective of Lubovitch's choreography]. New York Times (4 November): D5.
• Parks, Gary. 1986. "Passion's Progress: New Lease on Lar." Dance Magazine (November): 55-56.
• Ricketts, Wendell. 1993. "AIDS Onstage." Dance Ink 4 (3) (Fall): 13-14, illus.
• Tobias, Tobi. 1986. "Modern Times." New York Magazine (December): 116 & 118, illus.
• Valis-Hill, Constance. 1990. "Reviews." Attitude 6 (4) (Summer): 5, illus.
• Wechsler, Bert. 1991. "Mostly Mozart, Less Lubovitch." Attitude 7 (4) (Summer/Fall): 49.