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Paul Taylor: Working the Space Between Art and Life |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Don McDonagh |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,853 Words, 11,362 Characters |
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Beauty and brute reality exercise equal fascination for Paul Taylor's creative imagination. As Robert Rauschenberg, an early collaborator, has said in speaking of his own work, "There's art and there's life; I like to work in the space between." This remark easily applies to Taylor's work.
The April season at New York City Center's 55th Street Theater marked Taylor's thirty-third year as an active choreographer. Over the years, the choreographer has moved from once-a-year appearances at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y to yearlong world tours.
Although Taylor's own company remains the focus of his choreographic energies, his works have appeared in the repertoires of the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Royal Danish Ballet, as well as a number of other compani...
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...airy look of ballet; at others, the density of earth-grounded athletic exercises. What they all share, however, is a genuine concern for human behavior.
Taylor is very much a contemporary in outlook but he has learned from the past. His creative eye is both knowing and innocent. Taylor has always taken the individual path, independent of fashion or popularity, to follow his personal star.
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