Opus Number: 112
Music: George Crumb
Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Date First Performed: July 25, 2000
Notes: “A dark jewel; a black opal of a ballet… a formalized ceremony of good and evil. Blood and violence never seem very far away from these dancers…performing their sacramental duties with feverish dedication, supervised by the priestess with tempestuous authority. And like almost everything Taylor and his magnificent dancers touch, it is theater burned into the stage, and, even more, burned on the audience’s imagination.” – Clive Barnes, New York Post
Laura Halzack, Parisa Khobdeh, and Orion Duckstein, photo by Paul B. Goode
