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Paul Taylor Dance Company Two Tickets Certificate
This certificate is redeemable for two (2) tickets in the full price orchestra for a performance of your choice to the Paul Taylor Dance Company's 2024 Season (November 5-25, 2024) at Lincoln Center.
Visit www.paultaylordance.org/lc for a program list
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Transforming the landscape of modern dance since 1954
Dancemaker Paul Taylor (1930-2018) first presented his choreography with five other dancers in Manhattan on May 30, 1954. That modest performance marked the beginning of a profound, uninterrupted creative output that shaped the future of American modern dance and continues to this day.
Since its earliest days, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has toured to venues throughout the United States and around the globe, from college campuses and rural towns to the world?s leading opera houses and performing arts centers. The Company has performed in more than 600 cities in sixty-six countries, including landmark tours and engagements in North and South America, China and the Far East, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, India, and the Middle East.
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Unparalleled Repertory
Paul Taylor?s 147 dances, spanning 64 years, stand as testament to his devotion to modern dance?s most beloved and prolific artists and to his genius as a dance maker. He had a special relationship with those he chose to dance for his Company and created work that, though deeply rooted in his own history and collaboration with other modern dance pioneers (Louis Horst, José Limón, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham), consistently pushed the boundaries of modern dance. His love of painting, poetry, and nature provided a rich palette for exploring the human condition, and he used each to demonstrate and depict its dark and light elements in transcendent ways. His works continue to move audiences to this day, lending them new perspective on the joy, pain, humor and tragedy that bind us together.
Critics and audiences are drawn to and astounded by his relationship to music of all genres, ranging, from classical and early jazz to original abstract scores and popular music. Yet, it was his unique mastery of classical music, particularly of baroque composers, that resonated most powerfully within his repertory. His breakthrough Aureole, which he set to Handel, established a singular voice that married the freedom and abstraction of modern movement to classical music. This marriage of modern dance and classical music by composers from Bach to Feldman continued to be amplified over decades in masterworks like Esplanade, Images and Dust, Airs, Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal), Arden Court, Mercuric Tidings, Sunset, Roses, A Musical Offering, Eventide, Promethean Fire, and Beloved Renegade.
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A New York Institution
From the outset, Paul Taylor viewed himself as a New York artist, and performing in his creative hometown has remained a tradition and priority. In addition to pioneering performances at the 92nd Street Y and numerous Broadway houses, the Company made its home for decades at New York City Center. In 2012, Mr. Taylor moved the Company?s annual New York City season to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, one of the world?s greatest cultural centers. The first modern dance company to call Lincoln Center home, it attracted larger audiences and critical acclaim. In 2014, Mr. Taylor announced his vision for Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, a season featuring his dances alongside historic masterworks and new commissions by choreographers invited to work with the Company. An integral element of Paul Taylor American Modern Dance is the partnership with the Orchestra of St Luke?s which provides live musical accompaniment whenever so intended by the choreographer.
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Worldwide Performances
Since its first European tour in 1960, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has performed in more than 600 cities in 64 countries, representing the United States at arts festivals in more than 40 countries and touring extensively under the aegis of the U.S. Department of State. Dedicated to sharing modern dance with the broadest possible audience, the Company tours annually, both domestic and internationally, with performances, educational programs, and engagement offerings that continue to grow our reputation as one of America?s leading dance ensembles. Recent international tours have brought the Company to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Oman, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey, as well as scores of cities within the United States. Our worldwide performance calendar is updated regularly, as well as details on how you are able to book the company.