A perennial PS21 favorite, Paul Taylor Dance Company captivates audiences with its athleticism, emotion, and daring. The company returns with three of the choreographer’s masterworks: Mercuric Tidings (1982), A Field of Grass (1993), and Piazzolla Caldera (1997).
In 2021, the company was in residency at PS21 for three weeks, recreating Kurt Jooss’ 1932 anti-war masterpiece, The Green Table, and in 2022, the company returned to PS21, performing Airs, Cloven Kingdom, and Syzygy.
PIAZZOLLA CALDERA
“Stunning. Taylor looks at the attitudes implicit of the tango – as sexual game, as social identity – and reshapes Them. Seethes and flares with sexuality and develops a huge erotic charge. One of Taylor’s most astonishing (even for him) creations.” – Clement Crisp, Financial Times of London
MERCURIC TIDINGS
“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 York Post
A FIELD OF GRASS
“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.” – Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
Dancemaker Paul Taylor (1930-2018) first presented his choreography with five other dancers in Manhattan on May 30, 1954. That modest performance marked the beginning of a profound, uninterrupted creative output that shaped the future of American modern dance and continues to this day.
Since its earliest days, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has toured to venues throughout the United States and around the globe, from college campuses and rural towns to the world’s leading opera houses and performing arts centers. The Company has performed in more than 600 cities in sixty-six countries, including landmark tours and engagements in North and South America, China and the Far East, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, India, and the Middle East.
Drawing from the Paul Taylor repertoire, the master class aims to present the Paul Taylor style for participants to encounter signature movements that have influenced modern dance as we know it.
Members of the dance community throughout the world are anxious to explore the various techniques and styles of dance that have shaped the dance profession. Paul Taylor’s impact on the field is indisputable. An understanding of that impact through participation, learning the repertoire that is seen in the performance, can prove to be an invaluable experience. Dancers’ inspiration and enthusiasm can translate to career enrichment, improved teaching and awareness within the presenter’s community, and word-of-mouth attention which creates excitement for the company’s performance and those that follow.
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