Opus Number: 86 Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Costumes: William Ivey Long Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 28, 1987 Notes: In Kith and Kin, a mature couple takes younger relations through their paces. Set to a Mozart Serenade, the buoyant choreography suggests Taylor’s take on 18th Century court dances with a scotch-hopping, leap-frogging and…
read moreOpus Number: 87 Music: Donald York (commissioned score) Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 21, 1987 Notes: Dancers hurtle across the stage like so many celestial bodies orbiting and eclipsing each other. “Full of utterly brilliant and seemingly disconnected shards of choreography. A full-throttle exercise in physicality, loose-limbed and speedy… It…
read moreOpus Number: 85 Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, orchestrated by Anton Webern and Frank Michael Beyer Set and Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 8, 1986 Notes: In 1747, Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, asked Johann Sebastian Bach to compose a fugue based on the king’s own music; Bach responded with…
read moreOpus Number: 83 Music: Donald York Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 16, 1985 Notes: “A frightening vision of urban apocalypse…Last Look is so engrossing that when the lights go up for curtain calls, one wonders for an instant where these nine smiling young humanoids came from.” – Martha…
read moreOpus Number: 82 Music: Richard Wagner and Heinrich Baermann Costumes: William Ivey Long Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 10, 1985 Notes: “Beautiful in its visual effects, poetic in its natural flow of movement. The piece is an ode to tenderness and blooms like a flower.” – Anna Kisselgoff, The New York TimesEran Bugge…
read moreOpus Number: 81 Music: Edgard Varèse Set: David Gropman Costumes: William Ivey Long Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: March 20, 1984 Notes: In a dance with stunning movement invention, spectacular sets and a spiky score by 20th Century iconoclast Edgar Varèse, Paul Taylor recalls the Byzantine Empire, an economic, political and cultural “superpower” whose…
read moreOpus Number: 80 Music: Johannes Brahms Costumes: William Ivey Long Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: December 1, 1983 Notes: “A complex and lovely work…beautifully wrought and surreptitiously gripping. A neo-classical abstraction in the line of Aureole and Arden Court, with an emphasis on musically motivated movement patterns and formal elegance.” – Alan M. Kriegsman,…
read moreOpus Number: 79 Music: Donald York (commissioned score) Set: David Gropman Costumes: Cynthia O’Neal Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 13, 1983 Notes: “Clever fun. The simple, curvy outlines of all the movement are uncannily like to cartoon characters’ in the Disney film, but the sardonic twists to plot and character are Taylor’s own…”…
read moreOpus Number: 78 Music: Edward Elgar (and recorded loon calls) Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 6, 1983 Notes: A poignant look at camaraderie among soldiers and the sweethearts they leave behind — which, according to The New York Times, first marked Paul Taylor as “one of the great…
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