Former Bill T. Jones dancer Lawrence Goldhuber, who has performed in a wide assortment of films, plays and commercials and has been lauded as a “gentleman of Falstaffian proportions” (Bergan Record) because of his unusual size for a dancer, will be in residence at UTD.

Goldhuber, who originally trained as an actor at Boston University, has danced at venues around the world for 20 years. He uses his experience to create dance theatre that is “charmingly unassuming … with a surprising edge of poignancy,” Jennifer Dunning wrote in The New York Times on Feb. 9, 2001.

As part of his residency, Goldhuber will work with UTD faculty members Michele Hanlon and Monica Saba and UTD students to produce the dance theatre performance Sprung ‘05. Goldhuber will choreograph Times Sq. Dance for UTD students to perform. He will base Times Sq. Dance on greeting, falling, confrontation, and formal grouping. The work will be set to baroque music and city sounds. He will include Times Sq. Dance in his production of Julius Caesar Superstar, which was commissioned by Danspace Project, will star Robert La Fosse, and will open in New York in May. In addition to choreographing Times Sq. Dance, Goldhuber will perform excerpts from his solo show, When the World Smells like Bacon, as part of Sprung ‘05.

Sprung ‘05 will also include works choreographed by Hanlon and Saba. According to Hanlon, the stark piece Crash features UTD student and soloist Amanda Lousberg and a chorus of four as they explore “the strange distortion of time that accompanies cataclysmic events.” Hit Me Again, choreographed by Saba, is a modern piece that will include mixed media.

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LAWRENCE GOLDHUBER
Recent work includes the premiere of The Life and Times of Barry Goldhubris in the TBA Festival at PICA, OR and at The Joyce Soho in NYC, choreographing and performing in The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and creating and appearing in The Cost of Living/Can We Afford This with British group DV8 Physical Theater at the Olympic Arts Festival in Sydney, London, and Hong Kong. Other recent performances: in San Francisco at the ODC Theater, MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, and JOE'S PUB in New York.

Born in New York City, Mr. Goldhuber trained as an actor at Boston University and has appeared in many commercials, films and plays. He performed his cabaret act A Dangerous Habit at Upstairs at Greene Street in NYC. In 1995, Goldhuber received a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for "sustained achievement as an influential presence in modern dance," and served as the host for the 2002 awards. He is the recipient of a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography as well as funding from the Jerome Foundation, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Goldhuber worked with Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from1985-1995 touring worldwide and creating roles in such landmark dances as Still/Here and Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/ Promised Land. Other work with Mr. Jones includes Sir Michael Tippett’s New Year (directed by Sir Peter Hall) for Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and the BBC film version, Lost in the Stars for the Boston Lyric Opera, and Mother of Three Sons also at the Houston Grand Opera. On television, Mr. Goldhuber was featured in both Alive TV’s Still/Here and PBS’ Great Performances series documentary Dancing to The Promised Land. Jones’ work remains in Goldhuber’s solo repertory show.

His company, Goldhuber & Latsky (with partner Heidi Latsky) performed internationally (including a nine city tour of Switzerland) and received many commissions for new work, including The Joyce Theater, The American Dance Festival (1997 Fellowship in Choreography), The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, two from Performance Space 122 in NYC, The Cannes International Festival de Danse, Teatro Libero Palermo, and Celebrate Brooklyn! Also performed at the Canada Dance Festival, Dance Place in DC, and Danse a Lille in France.

Other dance and theater work includes Fred Ho's Journey Beyond the West at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the title role in Golem for the Henson International Puppet Festival, and both Invisible Languages at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and Tales of Exile at Lincoln Center, with Ruby Shang Company. In addition to performances with Keely Garfield in New York and London, Mark Davis in Italy, Sherry Vine at Wigstock, and Janet Lilly in New York, Larry performed regularly at the legendary downtown NY club Jackie 60. He is on the Artist Advisory Committee of Performance Space 122 in New York City, where his solo show, When the World Smells Like Bacon premiered in February, 2001, and The Life and Times of Barry Goldhubris ran for three weeks in February, 2004.