Opus Number: 76 Music: Franz Schubert Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 20, 1982 Notes: “Danced for the sheer joy of it, the controlled expenditure of animal energy, poetry expressed as a time and motion of study, young people cavorting with the kinetic propensities of young godlets.” – Clive Barnes, New…
read moreOpus Number: 75 Music: Elevator music arranged by Donald York (commissioned score) Costumes and stage design: Alex Katz Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 14, 1982 Notes: In 1957, Paul Taylor presented a single performance of 7 New Dances – a concert that caused most of the audience to leave soon after it began,…
read moreOpus Number: 74 Music: Darius Milhaud Set: Mimi Gross Costumes: Cynthia O’Neal Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 6, 1981 Notes: "House of Cards, set to Darius Milhaud's 1923 jazzy ballet score ''La Creation du Monde,'' is one of those zany-deep Taylor works that immediately delight and yet send the audience thinking into the…
read moreOpus Number: 73 Music: William Boyce Set and Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 15, 1981 Notes: “One of the few great art works created in century… exploring a new movement field of love and relationship. The women dance into the men’s arms as if Shakespeare had only written Romeo and…
read moreOpus Number: 72 Music: Igor Stravinsky (arrangement for piano) Set and Costumes: John Rawlings Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: January 15, 1980 Notes: “It takes a genius to upstage another genius, and that’s just about what Paul Taylor accomplished in his deliciously berserk dance version of Igor Stravinsky’s hallowed, epoch-making score… Taylor uses this…
read moreOpus Number: 71 Music: Jan Radzynski (commissioned score) Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Mark Litvin Date First Performed: July 28, 1979 Notes: “Mr. Taylor has created one of his most essential evocations of evil. The four dancers have come to seem bent on some dark private ritual, figures who have stepped off an archaic vase, loose…
read moreOpus Number: 70 Music: Alexander Scriabin Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 19, 1979 Notes: “Taylor’s deliciously Gothic romance is a work to take along when stranded on a desert island. A mock Victorian melodrama that makes for some uneasy laughter, it is about sexual repression and false innocence. Taylor is…
read moreOpus Number: 69 Music: Donald York (commissioned score) Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Mark Litvin Date First Performed: November 3, 1978 Notes: “A mysteriously joyous… wonderful, crazy excursion into the unknown. Taylor has bestrewn the stage with wonderful Alex Katz profiles of dogs – mean, handsome, arrogant, underprivileged – that provide an obstacle course…
read moreOpus Number: 68 Music: G.F. Handel Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: May 30, 1978 Notes: “Airs is a new and distinctive vintage, of mellowness and classic finish that give it a sublime autumnal glow. Incredibly diversified and complex. The whole work is a treasure.” – Alan M. Kriegsman, The Washington PostEran…
read moreOpus Number: 67 Music: Renaissance music re-orchestrated by Donald York Set and Costumes: Gene Moore Date First Performed: November 29, 1977 Scenario by Charles Ludlam Notes: "Like silly putty, it thrives on stickiness only to bounce back from the most ridiculous of situations and Mr. Ludlam is, of course, the impresario, director and unavoidable star,…
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