Recently, over at B.A.M., William Forsythe in his new piece, Three Atmospheric Studies, made his position clear: He’s anti-war. Study I involves 15 or so dancers in street clothes, brawling. They brawl and brawl (very effectively) until one of them is hauled away—you see, this isn’t just street gangs doing their West Side Story thing, Read More
What does Paul Taylor mean by giving us two new pieces that are as violently opposed in spirit as Spring Rounds and Banquet of Vultures—a light, airy kiss and a blow to the solar plexus? Is it merely good showmanship, or is Taylor trying to tell us that he (and we and the world) can Read More
Every year, it seems, when the Paul Taylor Dance Company steps out at the City Center, at least one work from the past reasserts itself as especially masterly. Last year it was the pastoral Images . This year it’s Mercuric Tidings , Taylor’s glorious outburst of kinetic excitement to excerpts from Schubert’s first and second Read More
Of the 15 dancers performing for Paul Taylor in his recent two-week season at the City Center, only four have been with the company for as long as six years. Which may explain why the season was tilted so radically toward Mr. Taylor’s newer works he’s showing off his new kids in pieces made specifically Read More
