Opus Number: 107 Music: David Israel (commissioned score) Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: March 4, 1998 Notes: The New Testament speaks of serving God with reverence and godly fear, “For our God is a consuming fire.” The students at a religious prep school have taken these words to heart. Dressed in…
read moreOpus Number: 106 Music: Astor Piazzolla and Jerzy Peterburshsky Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 12, 1997 Notes: Neruda wrote of poetry that mirrors “the flawed confusion of human beings,” poetry “worn away as if by acid by the labor of hands, impregnated with sweat and smoke, smelling of…
read moreOpus Number: 105 Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: February 25, 1997 Notes: “The American spirit soars when Taylor’s dances and dancers meet, but rarely has it reached the sublime heights of this piece. It is a paean to remembered love, with couple after loving couple…
read moreOpus Number: 104 Music: David Israel Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: January 10, 1997Company, photo by Howard Schatz
read moreOpus Number: 103 Music: Jacques Offenbach Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 12, 1995 Notes: “Taylor-ed to keep you in stitches…Offenbach Overtures starts as a gentle spoof…but low comedy soon gets the upper hand, and you’re doubled over in laughing before you know it. A typical Taylor twist left the opening…
read moreOpus Number: 101 Choreography: Sandra Stone, Mary Cochran, Hernando Cortez, David Grenke, Andrew Asnes and Patrick Corbin. Amended and combined by Paul Taylor Music: Novelty tunes Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 12, 1994 Notes: “A mega-hit…The recordings are side-splitting, the choreography is hilarious, the dancers are terrific…A new work so…
read moreOpus Number: 102 Music: Claude Debussy Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 13, 1994 Notes: "It tells a simple determinist tale of life and death. But, as is always true with Taylor dances, the rich texture and depth of the piece come from an accumulation of sly detail in movement and…
read moreOpus Number: 100 Music: Songs sung by Harry Nilsson Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 27, 1993 Notes: “A master of mixing dark and light, Paul Taylor outdid himself in A Field of Grass, a stunningly succinct recreation of the apocalyptic 1960’s and the decade’s appetite for love, death and drugs.”…
read moreOpus Number: 99 Music: Arnold Schoenberg Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: July 8, 1993 Notes: “A quietly resounding success. Sensuously but deliberately understated… and suffused with the very lyricism (a gift Taylor enjoys with Balanchine and precious few others, of making dance music cleave together in a seamless arc…
read moreOpus Number: 97 Date First Performed: September 26, 1991 Notes: Version for television first aired in 1991Jamie Rae Walker, Michael Trusnoveck, Amy Young, photo by Paul B. Goode
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