Paul Taylor Dance Company

Music by Astor Piazzolla and Jerzy Peterburshsky
The essence of tango – the predatory dance from the brothels of early 20th Century Buenos Aires – is captured in a work with hardly a single tango step. Working class men and women confront each other in sizzling duets and trios, while a woman who has failed to find a partner collapses as if mortally wounded by a night without passion. “Stunning. Taylor looks at the attitudes implicit in the tango – as sexual game, as social identity – and reshapes them. It seethes and flares with sexuality and develops a huge erotic charge. One of Taylor's most astonishing (even for him) creations.” – Clement Crisp, (London) Financial Times