Paul Taylor Dance Company - Nov.2000/Oct.2002

Azlan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2002 5:31 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Sometimes, Silvery Subjects Have a Cloudy LiningJENNIFER DUNNING, NY TimesOne diabolical dance followed another with numbing regularity when the Paul Taylor Dance Company presented the third and final program of its City Center season on Sunday night. The brief "White Roses Duet" stood in for Mr. Taylor's equally convincing and even more lovable streak of romantic lyricism.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/arts/dance/06PAUL.html target=_blank>More</a>

Diana · **Posted:** Mon Mar 18, 2002 8:14 am

From Anita Amirrezvani in the San Jose Mercury News: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>No one could accuse Paul Taylor, the celebrated New York choreographer, of failing to mine the depths of his rich imagination. Friday, his versatile company of dancers performed three works inspired by vaudeville, the secret life of insects and the seedy origins of tango.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/2883948.htm" TARGET=_blank>more</A>

Azlan · **Posted:** Tue Apr 02, 2002 12:17 pm

Tobi Tobias writes in NY Mag:

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In his company's regular springtime run at the City Center, Taylor introduced the local audience to his latest venture on this terrain. Antique Valentine, set to bits of classical music rendered on music boxes, player piano, and mechanical organ, turns the dancers into wind-up dolls.

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Azlan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 05, 2002 11:26 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Dance troupe tangos back to the cityTom Strini, Milwaukee Journal-SentinelThe Paul Taylor Dance Company is returning to Milwaukee for the first time in many years.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><a href=http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/apr02/32549.asp target=_blank>More</a>

Azlan · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2002 4:42 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Troupe steps easily around tough tasksWilma Salisbury, Cleveland Plain DealerThe Paul Taylor Dance Company transported the audience to a sunny field, a dark religious compound and a smoky tango club Saturday night at the State Theatre in Playhouse Square.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><a href=http://www.cleveland.com/artsandevents/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment/1018863078336538.xml target=_blank>More</a>

Malcolm Tay · **Joined:** Fri Aug 31, 2001 11:01 pm **Posts:** 962

Jennifer Dunning writes in The NY Times (5 Aug 02) about Taylor 2: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>To Leap and Soar, Flying Past the BustleThe performing would have been impressive enough on its own in the outdoor program by Taylor 2, presented on Thursday afternoon by Dancing in the Streets. But the dancers' aplomb and artistry were even more remarkable in view of the stiflingly hot sun that beat down on the little rectangle of a stage floor at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan. Give those dancers a raise.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/05/arts/dance/05TAYL.html" TARGET=_blank>More...</A>

Azlan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2002 3:46 pm

Do we need a good reason, let alone three?

<a href=http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/3929869.htm target=_blank>1, 2, 3 Go! Three reasons to see the Paul Taylor Dance Company</a>
Anita Amirrezvani, San Jose Mercury News

LMCtech · **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2002 8:16 am

A review from the Chronicle.

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Spirited dance alfresco
Taylor masterworks at Yerba Buena

Octavio Roca, Chronicle Dance Critic

The dance season began early, and it was quite a start: an outdoor performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company at Yerba Buena Gardens on Sunday afternoon. Here was American dance at its most exuberant.

The free program was a trilogy of Taylor masterworks from three decades. "Dandelion Wine," choreographed in 2000 to Pietro Locatelli's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, again emerged as a feast of miracles. Not least among these was Richard Chen See, back in form after a series of injuries.

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LMCtech · **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2002 8:21 am

And from the Examiner (first piece in the article).

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Dance for every season
BY RACHEL HOWARD
Examiner Dance Critic

The program was made up of older favorites: "Cloven Kingdom," Taylor's bleak yet playful 1976 mockery of human evolution, in which tuxedoed men stamp like wild boars; and 1981's bucolic "Arden Court," one of Taylor's classic angelic visions ("Airs" is another) to the baroque music of William Boyce.

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LMCtech · **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2002 12:23 pm

Allan Ulrich also reviewed this performance on the Voice of Dance website if you want to check it out.

www.voiceofdance.com

djb · **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2002 9:21 pm

Did any of the SF contingent see this performance? I actually set out to see it, but where I live (on the edge of the sun belt), it was foggy, cold and very windy, and my bad knee was aching by the time I got to the bus stop, and I figured I'd be miserable sitting in the cold for a couple of hours. So I went back home and, wouldn't you know, the sun came out downtown!

Azlan · **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2002 9:51 pm

Um, I was having soup with Lauren at Andronico's. Did MEHunt or Belinda go?

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Belinda · **Joined:** Tue Oct 24, 2000 11:01 pm **Posts:** 269

Yes, I was there

, the weather was fine (the wind even picked up as if on cue to ventilate the dancers in tuxedoes for "Cloven") and the dancers were lovely. Also the setting was stunning, with the rock face of the waterfall in the background. It was a treat.

ArtsMan · **Joined:** Sat Aug 03, 2002 11:01 pm **Posts:** 591

In the Boston Herald:

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Choreographer fired up over latest work

by Vicki Sanders

Clues to the genius of choreographer Paul Taylor are embedded in the stacks of books and publications that clutter his library, in the music collection that embraces everything from Bach to Depression-era tunes, and in his quirky miniature collages of bugs and found objects, which hang on the walls of his Long Island home.

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Basheva · **Posted:** Sat Oct 26, 2002 8:11 am

From the Boston Globe:

Taylor proves a master of surprise

By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent, 10/26/2001

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A pregnant woman in tattered clothes dances a feisty, high-kicking solo to the Depression-era tune ''Sittin' on a Rubbish Can,'' and a man in a ratty top hat and dingy underwear dances an insouciant little soft shoe. Though Paul Taylor has been making dances for almost half a century, the master choreographer can still conjure characters that manage to surprise, to test the heart and tease the eye in unexpected ways. His trademark dance vocabulary may remain basically the same, but the legendary dance-maker seems to constantly reinvent the contexts, forms, and structures that can give his dances stunning emotional impact and striking visual appeal.

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