Taylor’s Jumping-Off Places: Revivals and Playful Premieres by Robert Gottlieb for The New York Observer
Every year, it seems, when the Paul Taylor Dance Company steps out at the City Center, at least one work from the past reasserts itself as especially masterly. Last year it was the pastoral Images. This year it’s Mercuric Tidings, Taylor’s glorious outburst of kinetic excitement to excerpts from Schubert’s first and second symphonies.
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Choreographer Taylor reworks 'Petrouchka' By FREDERICK M. WINSHIP for UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) -- As a prelude to its 50th anniversary tour of all 50 states, the Paul Taylor Dance company is presenting a two-week New York season at City Center that includes the world premiere of Taylor's version of Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka," the choreographer's 120th work for the stage.
Re-titled "Le Grand Puppetier" (The Great Puppeteer), Stravinsky's tragic love story of three puppets at a Russian fair -- the hapless Petrouchka, a beautiful Ballerina, and a jealous Moor -- has been changed into a Napoleonic political fable demonstrating that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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