Paul Taylor Dance Company

FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

Opus Number: 
39
Music: 
Charles Ives (later, commissioned score by John Herbert McDowell)
Costumes: 
John Rawlings
Lighting: 
Tom Skelton
Date First Performed: 
March 31, 1965
Notes: 

“If the United States had a proper arts policy, Paul Taylor would be declared a national treasure…Sea [has a] naughtily satiric view of Lady Liberty and the other symbols of America ranging from Superman to the KKK… Darkly funny.” – Christine Temin, Boston Globe

Photos: Jack Mitchell