Why do we love Paul Taylor? (Not the man, although we love him too, but the work.) There’s the all-out energy and commitment with which his dancers move. There’s the offbeat mind that finds large dance possibilities in such odd places. There’s the unerring taste in music, in costume, in lighting. There’s the way he 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
Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company. This is by no means a universal view-some people find him old-fashioned (just as some people find Balanchine and Ashton old-fashioned). Others find Read More
