Paul Taylor Dance Company

Ragtime medleys of Tin Pan Alley, operatic and patriotic tunes
The title is a term of admiration from the early 1900s that sets the tone for a Coney Island-style revue of vaudeville numbers and a melodrama featuring a damsel in distress. The Ku Klux Klan is parodied, and a not-so-young eccentric dancer performs a grotesque hootchy-kootch for perhaps the millionth time. “An exuberant romp… Sheer and wonderful entertainment. But Taylor reminds us that the era of the Keystone Kops was also the heyday of the KKK.” – Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times