Opus Number: 96 Music: Songs sung by the Andrews Sisters Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 20, 1991 Notes: Just as America began to emerge from the Depression at the dawn of the 1940s, the country was drawn into the Second World War. In a seminal piece of Americana, Paul Taylor…
read moreOpus Number: 95 Music: Early New Orleans Jazz, and Reggae Costumes: Robert Rauschenberg (3 Epitaphs) and George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 6, 1991. Notes: "Fact is the rehearsal, with the dancers on the sidelines smoking and chatting. Fancy, on the other hand, is presumably the work of art, the performance of…
read moreOpus Number: 98 Music: Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: First performed in 1991 Notes: "Oz is total Taylor, radiating a luminous purity that other choreographers today would not dare attempt. A madcap fantasy with a wistful flavor unlike that of the L. Frank Baum…
read moreOpus Number: 94 Music: Donald York Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 25, 1990 Notes: "a visionary treatise that stimulates thought and discourse rather than delights. And yet it packs a wallop, leaving behind a touch of heartache." – Anna Kisselgoff, The New York TimesJoao Mauricia, Elie Chaib, and…
read moreOpus Number: 93 Music: Paul Dukas Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: November 2, 1989 Notes: “Sofa shows Taylor squeezing a scene from life in order to extract the comic juices. The dance is a send-up of psychiatric analysis, in which a hapless analysand seeks to cure his fear of…
read moreOpus Number: 92 Music: David Koblitz, Douglas Wieselman and Thaddeus Spae Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 15, 1989 Notes: "Don't be taken in by the good time you will have at Minikin Fair. Under the sweet smirks rests a sharp and shrewd commentary on human nature. A sample:…
read moreMusic: Matthew Patton Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: November 10, 1988 Notes: A melodic and haunting score with fragments of an evangelical broadcast propels this impressionistic look at religious fanaticism and hypocrisy in a town led by a charismatic preacher who is both fearsome man of God and weak-willed sinner.…
read moreOpus Number: 90 Music: Charles Ives Set: David Gropman Costumes: William Ivey Long Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: May 12, 1988 Note: “What remains is even more gripping and profound - an epic, corrosive vision of late 20th century America destroying itself and its cherished values through an excess of energy and a shortage…
read moreOpus Number: 89 Music: György Ligeti Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 28, 1988 Notes: “Entomological eroticism… as essay in movement invention. In this intriguing and insistent whirlpool of dance…the familiar had been made to look strange, the commonplace transformed into a glistening fantasy. If you think a cockroach can’t look…
read moreOpus Number: 88 Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 5, 1988 Notes: “Beauty is the only word for Brandenburgs… celebrates the good things in life. Such a radiant, seamless flow of invention that the choreography seems an entirely natural way of moving to this music.” – Mary…
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