Paul Taylor Dance Company

Music by Francis Poulenc
A depiction of the experiences of an artist – “poet of the body and the soul” – described in Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Scenes from his life include tending to the afflicted, just as the poet nursed dying soldiers during the Civil War. His mortality foretold, the poet is embraced by a benevolent feminine spirit with “the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.” "The best new choreography in 2008. Deeply moving... a work of philosophic as well as dramatic power. Mr. Taylor ranks among the great war poets. One of the great achievements of his long career and one of the most eloquently textured feats of his singular imagination." -- Alastair Macaulay, New York Times