Opus Number: 35 Choreography: Co-choreographed with Katherine Litz Music: Leopold Mozart Costumes: Katherine Litz and George Tacet Lighting: Thomas Skelton Date First Performed: August 26, 1963
read moreOpus Number: 34 Music: Clarence Jackson Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Thomas Skelton Date First Performed: August 10, 1963 Notes: With its performances in 2008, Paul Taylor’s legendary Scudorama returned to the stage for the first time in 35 years. The title combined the type of clouds that race across the sky before a…
read moreOpus Number: 33 Date First Performed: May 20, 1963 Notes: Duet for television
read moreOpus Number: 31 Music: Vivaldi, Telemann, Haydn, Scarlatti, Beethoven and Bonporti Costumes: John Rawlings Date First Performed: November 8, 1962 Notes: “A barrel of laughs – a delicious lampoon of dance styles of various periods, climes and persuasions. Entertains through superb craftsmanship and genuine wit.” – Walter Terry, New York Herald TribuneSharon Kinney, Renee Kimball,…
read moreOpus Number: 30 Music: George Frideric Handel Set and Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Thomas Skelton Date First Performed: August 4, 1962 Notes: “Aureole, perhaps his first major success, was the first time Taylor combined his loping antelope style of movement with baroque music, and its grace and individuality instantly spun into orbit throughout the world…
read moreOpus Number: 29 Music: James Tenny (commissioned score) Set and Costumes: Robert Rauschenberg Date First Performed: April 11, 1962 Notes: Before Aureole, there was Tracer, where Taylor started to refine elegance, simplicity of shape and line, juxtaposed against sets and costumes by his friend and collaborator Robert Rauschenberg.Rei Akazawa and Lee Duveneck, photo by Jeff…
read moreOpus Number: 28 Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: November 24, 1961 Notes: "… an uncompromisingly plotless work filled with quirks and squiggles, apparent non sequiturs whose unmotivated look is heightened by the stately, pensive walks with which the dance is also filled presumably the joke…
read moreOpus Number: 27 Music: John Herbert McDowell (commissioned score) Set and Costumes: Rouben Ter-Arutunian Lighting: Louise Guthman Date First Performed: August 18, 1961 Notes: " that juxtaposes light and dark, winging lyricism and plunges into awkwardness, refinement and crudity, complexity and simplicity, comedy and mystery The dancers in Insects and Heroes included one disguised in…
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