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PAUL TAYLOR — FALL FOR DANCE

Paul Taylor—for many years America’s greatest living choreographer—died yesterday at age 88 in New York City.

Michael Novak will take the helm as the artistic director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, which will perform BLACK TUESDAY at Fall for Dance in October.

BLACK TUESDAY—PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

Wednesday and Thursday, October 3 and 4, at 8 pm.

CITY CENTER, 131 West 55th Street, New York City.

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Top: Paul Taylor (right) in rehearsal 2005. Photograph by Mary Altaffer.

Above: Taylor in New York City in 1969.

Below: Taylor and Elizabeth Walton dancing Tracer in 1963. 

Photograph by Alix Jeffry. Image credit: Paul Taylor Dance Company Archive.

PAUL TAYLOR

ESPLANADE, the most miraculous of dances, makes a lyric flow out of one expressive contrast after another. Stillness and movement, running and walking, joy and anguish, rushing forward and looking back, jumping high and falling splat: Your heart is brim-full while you watch.” — Alastair Macaulay

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY, one of the great American troupes, arrives at the Wallis this weekend for three performances. And for dancers, there’s a Master Class on Saturday afternoon.

In addition to ESPLANADE, the company will perform SYZYGY, and THE WORD.

 

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, at 8 pm.

Sunday, May 7, at 2 pm.

 

MASTER CLASS

Saturday, May 6, at noon.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

9390 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills.

Above: Michael Trusnovec and Robert Kleinendorst in Syzygy.

Below: Eran Bugge (standing) and Trusnovec in Esplanade.

Photographs © Paul B. Goode