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Repertory

Fandango

COMPANIES

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

CHOREOGRAPHER

  • Lar Lubovitch

COMPANY PREMIERE

New York City Center, 1995

WORLD PREMIERE

Lubovitch Dance Company, New York City Center, 1990

MUSIC

Maurice Ravel ("Bolero")

LIGHTING

Original Lighting by Craig Miller; Lighting recreated by Clifton Taylor

RUN TIME

17 Minutes

In his sensual, athletic duet, Lar Lubovitch explores the infinite possibilities of partnering in a contemporary look at the 18th-century dance form fandango—a slow moving, restrained dance for a man and a woman. The dancers’ bodies intertwine as if propelled by the lush intensity of Ravel’s Bolero in this piece that The New York Times called “a sexy, topsy-turvy embrace.”

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Yannick Lebrun and Jacquelin Harris in Lar Lubovitch's Fandango Photo by Paul Kolnik

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Yannick Lebrun and Jacquelin Harris in Lar Lubovitch's Fandango Photo by Paul Kolnik

SPONSORS

Fandango was made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

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