Opus Number: 84
Music: P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele)
Set and Costumes: Alex Katz
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Date First Performed: April 1, 1986
Notes: “It isn’t your everyday choreographer who will unabashedly turn to self-parody but Paul Taylor plunges straight into such waters in his zany and newest work, Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala… Parody works best when it works on several levels, as Mr. Taylor knows. He is a master of the movement joke – making movement funny on its own terms. And then he can also extend it into a literary or dance allusion.” – Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
(Downstage) Madelyn Ho, Sean Mahoney, Heather McGinley (Second Row) Christina Lunch Markham, Francisco Graciano, James Samson, Eran Bugge, Laura Halzack (Top Row) Michael Trusnovec, Parisa Khobdeh, Michael Apuzzo, photo by Paul B. Goode
