Opus Number: 147 Music: Eric Ewazen – Concerto for Violin and Strings Set and Costumes: Willam Ivey Long Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: March 7, 2018 Notes: The final dance Paul Taylor created. "It’s called "Concertiana," and it’s a company work - a work about the company. Here is Taylor presenting and reveling…
read moreOpus Number: 145 Music: Jacques Ibert Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: March 7, 2017 Notes: Set to the music of Jacques Ibert, this was a series of vignettes that traveled to various ports of call including Africa, Hawaii, Alaska, and Midwest, USA.Michael Apuzzo and Francisco Graciano, photo by…
read moreOpus Number: 146 Music: Sir Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations Set and Costumes: Willam Ivey Long Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: February 3, 2017 Notes: Featuring a host and his invited guests, The Open Door is "a 15 minute whimsical assortment of lifetime of filtered, refined, and, yes, exaggerated memories; a brief reunion…
read moreOpus Number: 144 Music: Songs sung by Burl Ives Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: James F. Ingalls Program Notes: “Dilly” is a shortening of “delightful.” Date First Performed: February 20, 2016 Notes: “Dilly Dilly brought back beautiful renderings of folk songs by Burl Ives —“Foggy Foggy Dew,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “Big Rock Candy Mountain,”…
read moreOpus Number: 143 Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: October 17, 2015George Smallwood and Parisa Khobdeh, photo by Paul B. Goode
read moreOpus Number: 142 Music: Bohuslav Martinů: Cello Sonata No. 2 Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: March 13, 2015 Notes: "Taylor has taken on all matter of subjects in his works, and many of them involve “painful little scenes,” as Joan Acocella calls the moments in his works when…
read moreOpus Number: 141 Music: Francis Poulenc Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: November 8, 2014 Notes: Young friends enjoy a carefree sail, and their joyful interplay in and on the water at a beach makes for an idyllic afternoon. "Mr. Taylor’s poetic title is apt, as 10 of his…
read moreOpus Number: 140 Music: Raymond Scott Set and Costumes: Santo Laquasto Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: March 14, 2014Jamie Rae Walker, Robert Kleinendorst, Michael Novak, Francisco Graciano, James Samson, Aileen Roehl, Laura Halzack, Sean Mahoney, Heather McGinley, and Michelle Fleet, photo by Paul B. Goode
read moreOpus Number: 139 Music: Stephen Foster Songs sung by Thomas Hampson Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: August 5, 2013Eran Bugge, Michelle Fleet, Sean Mahoney, Tornga, Robert Kleinendorst, Michael Apuzzo, photo by Paul B. Goode
read moreOpus Number: 138 Music: Johann David Heinichen from the Dresden Concerti Set and Costumes: Santo Laquasto Lighting: James F. Ingalls Date First Performed: March 5, 2013 Notes: Set to sprightly baroque concertos, the dance depicts young people experiencing the awakening of love, perhaps for the very first time.Francisco Graciano and Eran Bugge, photo by Paul…
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