The 92nd Avenue Y, New York’s 150th anniversary dance season closes with the Paul Taylor Dance Firm in a program celebrating the previous, current and future of contemporary dance, and the corporate’s relationship with 92NY that had a profound influence on dance historical past. The efficiency is in individual in Kaufmann Live performance Corridor on Monday, Might 13 at 8pm, and is out there on-line for 72 hours from midday on Might 14. Tickets can be found right here.
In 1957, 92NY created an area for younger choreographer Paul Taylor to current his first full night of choreography in its Kaufmann Live performance Corridor; 92NY had lengthy been welcoming and supporting American modern dance artists in creating their work. That efficiency noticed the premiere of Seven New Dances, which posed provocative and radical questions on what fashionable dance was and will turn into. It additionally impressed one of the crucial well-known revealed opinions in dance historical past – 4 inches of clean house – that catapulted the younger Taylor towards fame and infamy for his avant-garde tackle human motion. This groundbreaking efficiency has additionally been hailed by many because the underpinning for the later inventive of Taylor’s 1975 masterpiece, Esplanade.
In celebration of their relationship’s lasting influence, the Paul Taylor Dance Firm returns to the stage the place all of it started, for 92NY’s 150th anniversary. Hosted by Broadway and movie icon Alan Cumming, the night will open with a watch on the long run with an unique preview of Resident Choreographer Lauren Lovette’s latest creations. Then, after 67 years the story of Seven New Dances might be delivered to the Kaufman stage as soon as once more. Studying from Paul Taylor’s autobiography Non-public Area, Cumming will carry Taylor’s voice to life, narrating the creation of – and the viewers’s response to – the premiere of Seven New Dances. Excerpts from 5 of the unique seven dances might be reconstructed for this particular night, carried out by the Taylor Firm and particular visitors, together with New York Metropolis Ballet (NYCB) Principal Adrian Danchig-Waring, Alicia Graf Mack and Damian Woetzel. The night closes with Esplanade, discovering its means house to 92NY for the primary time.
The night additionally honors Juilliard and NYCB’s relationship to Paul Taylor. With NYCB’s Adrian Danchig-Waring, Juilliard’s Alicia Graf Mack and Damian Woetzel’s long-standing relationship with each cultural establishments, Juilliard and NYCB’s presence in Taylor’s legacy — previous, current and future — might be engaged in an unprecedented means.
For tickets and extra data, go to www.92ny.org/occasion/paul-taylor-dance-company.
