Paul Taylor Dance Company

Music by George Frideric Handel
This lyrical, light-hearted dance, with a title that refers to a brightness around a person’s head, contains romance and a brilliant male solo emphasizing the performer’s virile grace. Its premiere 50 years ago launched a Golden Age. “Aureole, perhaps Taylor’s first major success, was the first time he combined his loping antelope style of movement with baroque music, and its grace and individuality instantly spun into orbit throughout the world of dance. There is an interestingly variegated luminosity of spirit that recalls fluffy clouds on Shakespeare’s summer’s day.” – Clive Barnes, New York Post