Paul Taylor Dance Company

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Taylor’s most famous work is a celebration of natural movement that – typical of the choreographer’s trademark duality – also delves deeply into an array of human emotions. Its sections display youthful exuberance; dysfunctional family relations; and romantic love. “A classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.” – Arlene Croce, The New Yorker