The Paul Taylor Dance Company's logo is a stylized scarab. Mr. Taylor is a naturalist who collects butterflies and scarabs, and who has made his own furniture from driftwood. Having attended Syracuse University and The Juilliard School, Mr. Taylor has since been honored with honorary doctorates from the California Institute of the Arts, Connecticut College, Duke University, Juilliard, Skidmore College, the State University of New York at Purchase, and Syracuse University. He's also the winner of a MacArthur "Genius" Award, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 1993, among many other prestigious awards.
Music
Mr. Taylor uses all kinds of music for his dances, from Bach to barbershop quartets, from the Andrews Sisters to Astor Piazzolla, and from Locatelli to Ligeti. He has also used such non-musical sounds as telephone operator time recordings and the calls of loons. He particularly favors Bach, Handel and other composers from the early to mid 1700s, and was one of the first modern dance choreographers to use a baroque score, in 1961, for Junction, and then again in 1962, for Aureole. His two most recent dances use Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours," and a collection of works spanning seven centuries and recorded by the Kronos Quartet.
Movies
Mr. Taylor and the Paul Taylor Dance Company were the subject of a widely-seen 1997 motion picture documentary, "Dancemaker," by Matthew Diamond, which was nominated for an Academy Award. The movie chronicled the inner workings of the Company and showed the creative process of one of Mr. Taylor's most popular dances, Piazzolla Caldera.
Television
The Paul Taylor Dance Company has appeared on the Public Broadcasting System many times, including in the Emmy-winning Speaking in Tongues as well as "The Wrecker's Ball," comprising Company BFunny Papers and A Field of Grass. Its most recent appearance was in "Acts of Ardor," which included the dances Black Tuesday and Promethean Fire.
Books
Mr. Taylor's autobiography, "Private Domain," was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 1987. Mr. Taylor often uses epigrams or literary quotes to give audience members an idea of the meaning of a dance, and has quoted Shakespeare, Dante, and Spinoza among others. As a reader he favors Agatha Christie mysteries and of Edgar Allan Poe.
Heroes
Mr. Taylor has been described as an American Icon, a Living Legend and a National Treasure, and is a hero to countless dancers as well as to millions of dance fans in the United States and throughout the world.
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You're listening to a movement from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, which Paul Taylor used in his delightful "Brandenburgs" -- one of several dances for which the Dancemaker used the music of baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company is celebrated around the world for the astonishing athleticism and breathtaking brilliance of its 16 dancers... and the sparkling wit and shattering impact of Mr. Taylor's masterworks, a collection that now numbers 126. The San Francisco Chronicle says "The American spirit soars whenever Taylor's dancers dance," and in the dance capital of the world, The Observer says "The Taylor Company is now the best New York has to offer in dance."
Since its inception in 1954, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has performed in more than 520 cities in 62 countries. It is, quite simply, a National Treasure, and Mr. Taylor is an American Icon who ranks among history's greatest artists. He now has a collection of 130 dances, and the number continues to grow by two each year.
The dancers of the Paul Taylor Dance Company are: Richard Chen See, Michael Trusnovec, Annmaria Mazzini, Orion Duckstein, Amy Young, Robert Kleinendorst, Julie Tice, James Samson, Michelle Fleet, Parisa Khobdeh, Sean Mahoney, Jeffrey Smith, Eran Bugge, Francisco Graciano, Laura Halzack and Jamie Rae Walker. The members of Taylor 2 are Latra Wilson, Justin Kahan, John Eirich, Nic Ceynowa, Christina Lynch Markham and Madelyn Ho.
Here's the Company's schedule for the 200-10 Season; please remember that this is subject to change.
2009
September 22-23: New York City Center Fall For Dance Festival
October 1: McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL
October 3: EJ Thomas Hall, Akron, OH
October 8-10: Meany Hall, Seattle, WA
October 14: Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
October 17: Anderson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY
November 6-7: On Center, Syracuse, NY
November 10: Lied Center, Lincoln NE
November 13-14: Yardley Hall, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
November 18-19: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
December 18-20: Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing, NY
2010
February 24-March 14: New York City Center, NY
March 31: McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ
April 2: Hanover Theater, Worcester, MA
April 16-17: Sanat-Istanbul Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
April 22: Teatre Communale, Modena, Italy
April 24: Teatro Fraschini, Pavia, Italy
April 27: Performing Arts Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
April 28: Haifa Auditorium, Haifa, Israel
April 29: Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem, Israel
May 1-4: Tel Aviv Opera House, Tel Aviv, Israel
May 8-9: Birch North Park Theatre, San Diego, CA
May 29: Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA
Time for a little background. Few artists of our time, in any discipline, have had the profound impact on their art form that Paul Taylor has had on dance. People in cities and towns throughout the world have seen and enjoyed live modern dance performances due largely to the far-reaching tours he pioneered as a virtuoso dancer in the 1950s, and that his two companies -- the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2 -- have continued to this day. He is revered by many people as the world’s greatest choreographer, and his dances are performed not only by his two companies but by many of the world's great ballet and modern dance companies as well. For legions of Taylor fans it is impossible to hear certain orchestral works and popular songs and not think of his dances. He has influenced dozens of men and women who have gone on to create their own dances and/or establish their own troupes. As the subject of the widely seen documentary, "Dancemaker," and author of a critically acclaimed autobiography, "Private Domain," he has shed light on his creative process as few artists ever have. Paul Taylor may be the most sought-after choreographer working today, commissioned by leading companies, theaters and presenting organizations the world over.
Mr. Taylor was a swimmer and a student of art at Syracuse University in the late 1940s until he discovered dance, which he began studying at Juilliard. By 1954 he had assembled a small company of dancers. Having created the slyly funny 3 Epitaphs in 1956, he captivated dancegoers in 1962 with his virile grace in the landmark Aureole. After retiring as a performer in 1975, Mr. Taylor devoted himself fully to choreography, and spectacular dances poured forth: Esplanade… Cloven Kingdom… Airs… Arden Court… Lost, Found and Lost… Last Look… Roses… Musical Offering… Company B… Piazzolla Caldera… Promethean Fire… and dozens more. He has set dances to Ragtime and reggae, tango and Tin Pan Alley, telephone time announcements and loon calls; turned supermarket music and novelty tunes into high art; and enjoyed rich "collaborations" with Bach, Handel, Boyce other baroque composers.
In 1993 Mr. Taylor established Taylor 2, a Company of six dancers modeled after his original troupe in 1954. Described by the Berkshire Eagle as "Taylor too," Taylor 2 performs in smaller venues and offers masterclasses and lecture/demonstrations to fulfill its educational mission. Here are Taylor 2's 2009-10 performances (and residencies where indicated):
2009
July 27-August 3: The Yard, Martha's Vineyard, MA residency and performance
August 7: Sweet Pea Festival, Bozeman, MT
September 19: Performing Arts Center, Newton, NJ
September 30-October 3: EJ Thomas University Theater, Akron, OH residency
October 19-November 8: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY residency
November 30-December 4: The Landmark on Main Street, Port Washington, NY performance and residency
2010
January 30: Schein Performance Hall, Sanibel, FL
February 18-19: The Manship Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA
March 1-19: New York City Center Theater residency
April 12-25: The Joyce Theatre, New York, NY 1-2-3 Festival residency and performances
May 1-2: The American Theatre, Hampton, VA
Check our website (www.ptdc.org) to see which current or former Company member is teaching daily class at The Taylor School at 552 Broadway in Soho. And you can download free wallpaper images for your computer desktop. So come visit!
Here's some of what the Washington Times said about the Paul Taylor Dance Company's December 2006 engagement:
"No other choreographer has created such a probing portrait of the American psyche as Paul Taylor, who brought his brilliant company to the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater for a too-short three-performance engagement over the weekend. His towering talent has captured our joys, tenderness, fears and absurdities in fresh, imaginative movement that makes his group one of the most appealing dance companies in the country. His extraordinary dancers move like angels -- swift, graceful, daring -- and, when the occasion calls, with demonic fierceness, which leads to the cliche often applied to Mr. Taylor that he is master of good and evil. But his vision is vaster than that simple dichotomy. At the heart of the program was a Washington premiere, Banquet of Vultures that conjured up a nightmare world of unremitting horror...
"New to Washington was the over-the-top, hilarious Troilus and Cressida (reduced), a decidedly offbeat version of the Shakespeare play set to suitably bouncy music -- Amilcare Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. No one can do funny better than Mr. Taylor and his dancers' split-second timing and goofy moves, led by the remarkable Lisa Viola and Mr. Kleinendorst, who had the audience roaring with laughter."
And here's what Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times said in her 2006 year-end review: "More daredevil performing by dancers with strong individual presences and more lyrical, magisterial and slyly comical choreography by Mr. Taylor. Suddenly his airy, sweet-natured new Spring Rounds made me glad he is such an unassuming humanist. And the simple wordless majesty of the dance and dancers in his 1988 Brandenburgs reminded me of my childhood wonder at the enveloping power of the art."
Your works of art are absoltuely breathtaking!!! I'm so fond of all of your dance pieces!! I am a Dance Minor, and watching your performances makes me appreciate this art form even more!!!
I'd like to see more of your work...It's so weird to find in the dance way someone,and someone great,with the same past:swimming... Maybe that's something more for dancing...(sorry if my english isn't great!) See you later!Gatou
Your choreography moves me like no one else's. You have been a huge source of inspiration to me. My life is better for having experienced your artistic gifts.
I was so glad that I go to take class while attending the Sharing the Legacy Conference in NYC! It was amazing! Excited that I get to experience classes with Taylor 2 as well today! The companies are both amazing!
Paul Taylor is my idol, and so are all of his wonderful dancers! Great job at the Landmark. Cloven Kingdom, Banquet of Vultures, and Piazzolla Caldera were breathtaking!
Thank you for the add it is a pleasure to be your friend..Your performances are just amazing and i wish that i can see one in person..All the best..Sasha
Thanks a lot for add me! Je suis un fan de votre travail! Vous avez une énergie incroyable alors merci,merci & encore merci paul take care & dancin... William from paris
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Comments
Jan 19 2009 11:02 PM
Nov 11 2008 5:07 PM
Excellent Job!!!! Keep up the awesome work!!!!!
Bear Hugs and Hershey Kisses,
Dee<3
Jul 9 2008 2:19 PM
I like so much your performance, I think is great all your art!
Good Energy!!!
Apr 21 2008 12:03 AM
Apr 17 2008 9:28 PM
SALUTI DA GRECIA!
Apr 19 2008 11:45 AM
Maybe that's something more for dancing...(sorry if my english isn't great!)
See you later!Gatou
Apr 6 2008 10:11 PM
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Mar 31 2008 12:49 PM
Bravo!
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Dec 22 2007 6:06 AM
Thank you for the add. What a gift you are to the performing arts
Starr
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Kansas
Seen your work when you were here!
Dec 6 2007 6:37 PM
RENE
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Oct 19 2007 1:47 AM
Have a wonderful season.
Sep 26 2007 9:14 PM
Je suis un fan de votre travail!
Vous avez une énergie incroyable alors merci,merci & encore merci paul
take care & dancin...
William from paris
Oct 6 2007 9:48 PM
Thanks for the experience.
Sep 5 2007 8:07 PM
thank you very much for the add!
i love your Company :)
Rachid.
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Aug 8 2007 6:35 PM
you are.... " emotion" !!!