Opus 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,…
read moreOpus Number: 66 Music: Francis Poulenc Set and Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 1, 1977 Notes: “The man is a genius again with a fantastic new and macabre ballet. Remarkably well danced, with the company moving through this Goya-like vision of hell-in-life with the even-humored energy of athletes.“ – Clive…
read moreOpus Number: 65 Music: Claude Debussy Costumes: Gene Moore Lighting: Mark Litvin Date First Performed: January 19, 1977 Notes: “All two-dimensional friezes, human endeavor frozen in time, and oracular obsolescence. It carries the feel of pottery shards, the dust of the British Museum, the surprise of a fall through the shaft of a buried gravesite…
read moreOpus Number: 64 Music: Donald York (commissioned score) Set and Costumes: Alex Katz Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: August 26, 1976 Notes: Audience perception is explored in a two-part work in which the dancers move within and around a large metallic cube designed by Alex Katz, to music by Donald York. The choreography of…
read moreOpus Number: 63 Music: Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Cowell, and Malloy Miller Costumes: Women’s Costumes by Scott Barrie, Headpieces by John Rawlings Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 9, 1976 Notes: “Man is a social animal,” said Spinoza. Just below the surface of humans’ civilized veneer lurks an animal nature that cannot be ignored. The…
read moreOpus Number: 62 Music: Gerald Busby Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: August 13, 1975 Notes: “A major creation… The enormous pathos that arises in the final moments of , when all the elements of the piece are combined and restated and still the momentum leaps ahead – this pathos comes from…
read moreOpus Number: 61 Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Costumes: John Rawlings Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: March 1, 1975 Notes: An esplanade is an outdoor place to walk; in 1975 Paul Taylor, inspired by the sight of a girl running to catch a bus, created a masterwork based on pedestrian movement. If contemporaries Jasper Johns…
read moreOpus Number: 60 Music: Erik Satie Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: August 7, 1974 Notes: "Teamwork is what Mr. Taylor’s sparkling new work, Sports and Follies, is not really about. Set to pieces of various Satie scores, this local premiere delivered another of Mr. Taylor’s comic masterpieces. Mr. Taylor tends to…
read moreOpus Number: 57 Music: Bohuslav Martinů Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 13, 1973 Notes: Originally part of the full-evening work, American Genesisphoto of Carolyn Adams by Ken Duncan
read moreOpus Number: 58 Music: J.S. Bach, Franz Josef Haydn, John Fahey, Bohuslav Martinů and Louis Moreau Gottschalk Costumes: George Tacet Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 13, 1973 Notes: A work in three parts, American Gensis is a dance of parallelism, comparing the beginnings of American culture with those of the creation story in…
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