Opus Number: 55 Music: John Fahey Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: May 17, 1972 Notes: This work eventually became part of the full-evening work, American Genesis. “So Long Eden gives us a totally original view of the oldest story ever told." – Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
read moreOpus Number: 54 Music: Claude Debussy Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: March 11, 1972Paul Taylor and Company, photo by unknown
read moreOpus Number: 52 Music: Schubert, Weber, Saint-Saëns, Mozart, Beethoven, Boccherini, de Falla, and Tchaikovsky, transcribed for harpsichord Costumes: John Rawlings Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: July 2, 1971 Notes: “A sardonic suite that mocks human foibles, medievalism, music and dance conventions in thoroughly beguiling ways. A lovely, fiendishly clever dance.” – Deborah Jowitt, The…
read moreOpus Number: 51 Notes: Duet for television first aired March 1971
read moreOpus Number: 50 Music: Music from the St. Louis Melody Museum collection of band machines Set and Costumes: Alec Sutherland Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: November 6, 1970 Notes: “A hair-raising, though provoking, brilliant work that starts out as hilarious comedy and ends as tragedy…It moves with inescapable power from innocent pleasures to incestuous…
read moreOpus Number: 49 Music: Morton Subotnick Set: Alex Katz Costumes: Alec Sutherland Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 28, 1970 Notes: "It is a puzzling piece, intellectually, but is alive with a freshness of movement and zaniness of humor that is consistently appealing, even when the desire to make sense out of its nonconformities…
read moreOpus Number: 48 Costumes: Alec Sutherland Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: December 10, 1969 Notes: "Churchyard is a dark and beautiful work, an evocation of the past that may well be a vision of the future, and it is superbly effective... a work of piercing observation which uses as accompaniment a sequence of Medieval…
read moreOpus Number: 47 Music: Anonymous Medieval composers Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Judith Daykin Date First Performed: August 2, 1969 Notes: "Several of Mr. Taylor's favorite choreographic images and trademarks are immediately discernible: A contrast in dynamics between the two partners, constant movement by at least one, parallel positions, the sudden sweep of the arms. ther…
read moreOpus Number: 46 Music: Iannis Xenakis Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: May 7, 1969 Notes: "Private Domain is a masterwork of sinister beauty a voyeuristic glimpse into clinical eroticism." – Anna Kisselgoff, The New York TimesJeffrey Smith and Jamie Rae Walker, photo by Paul B. Goode
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