Past present.

Lar Lubovitch, whose company celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary May 10-22, plans to bring the past into the present. To commemorate a varied career, Lubovitch will premiere a group work performed by both zestful mavericks and older veterans. He has worked in every medium from bare-bones modern dance to full-length ballets, from mainstream Broadway (Into the Woods) and movies (The Company) to choreography for ice skaters such as Peggy Fleming. He hopes that his new work will evoke a painted memento or "pentimento." "Sometimes an artist paints a picture on a canvas and then uses the same canvas to paint a picture over it," says Lubovitch. "Then the former image begins to seep through the present image." Fittingly, the season takes place at the Washington Square United Methodist Church, where performances by experimental theater groups in the early 1960s sparked Lubovitch's early creative efforts.