Opus Number: 117 Music: Barbershop quartet songs sung by The Buffalo Bills Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 18, 2002 Notes: “So politically incorrect in so many directions it almost seems to be tweaking earnest downtown dance, but spinning out with such complete mastery of the turn-of the-century vernacular…
read moreOpus Number: 115 Music: J.S. Bach, Carl Maria von Weber, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin and Felix Mendelssohn played on music boxes, player piano, and mechanical organ Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 26, 2001 Notes: Taylor skewers romance in a comedy of manners that depicts lovers as glassy-eyed…
read moreOpus Number: 116 Music: J.S. Bach, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 6, 2002 Notes: Set to three keyboard works by Bach as richly orchestrated by Stokowski, Promethean Fire examines a kaleidoscope of emotional colors in the human condition. All 16 Taylor dancers, costumed in…
read moreOpus Number: 114 Music: Songs from the Great Depression Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 10, 2001 Notes: The once mighty jumped to their deaths from skyscrapers, former millionaires sold apples on street corners, and every metropolis sprouted Shantytowns. America was in the grip of the Great Depression –…
read moreOpus Number: 113 Music: Pietro Locatelli Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: November 16, 2000 Notes: The vibrant rhythms of a Baroque violin concerto by Locatelli propel a joyful romp in which Paul Taylor captures the essence of springtime by spotlighting the fresh qualities of his youngest dancers. A master of ceremonies…
read moreOpus 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…
read moreOpus Number: 111 Music: Claude Debussy Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 15, 1999 Notes: “Fascinating… A mysterious world of archaic creatures and fleeting encounters. Fierce, impossibly swift dancing that blends earthy ferocity with skimming airiness.” – Susan Reiter, NewsdayHeather McGinley and Michael Novak, photo by Paul B. Goode
read moreOpus Number: 110 Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: July 22, 1999 Notes: “Cascade glitters. The central section…is one of Mr. Taylor’s most beautiful duets. The two bodies fold in and out of themselves…in choreography that pours out like thick cream. One can see, in this duet particularly,…
read moreOpus Number: 109 Music: Ragtime music (performed by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra) Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: February 18, 1999 Notes: “Oh, You Kid!, a term of admiration used in the early 1900s, sets the tone for a Coney Island-style revue. Costumed in period beachwear, the dancers perform vaudeville…
read moreOpus Number: 108 Music: John Adams Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: May 23, 1998 Notes: "Taylor has used the score to provide the groundwork for a series of bucolic episodes that suggest a hoedown in a country barn, as envisaged by children – games and square dances, circular rounds with hands…
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