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Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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New York City Center, NYC * February 25-March 15, 2009

Amid the many tributes to the Ballets Russes in its centennial year, one arrived unheralded: the Paul Taylor Dance Company's warm-hearted and exciting engagement at City Center in March.

Taylor's bumptious repertory mostly celebrates itself, of course. Yet the 78-year-old dancemaker has a sense of history, and his admiration for past genius runs deeper than that of his contemporaries. The influence of the Ballets Russes (1909-1929) not only surfaces in Taylor's 1980 Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal), but also more particularly in his fondness for lighthearted "character" dances.

In his marvelous Sacre, Taylor reveals an affecting...

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