Paul Taylor Dance Company
7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 13, 2011
Eisenhower Auditorium
Paul Taylor's sixteen-member company, founded in 1954, serves as a beacon of American creativity to the world. Now in his early eighties, Taylor continues to choreograph vibrant and relevant dances that combine sheer beauty with wordless observations of thorny topics such as war, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality. The program features Taylor's 134th dance, The Uncommitted, in the first performance after its world premiere. The Uncommitted moves to music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The program also includes Brandenburgs, set to portions of Johann Sebastian Bach's Third and Sixth Brandenburg Concertos, and Piazzolla Caldera, danced to music by tango masters Astor Piazzolla and Jerzy Peterburshsky.
Taylor has earned a host of awards and commendations recognizing his accomplishments as a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director. Now he’s going to garner another honor. Taylor comes to Penn State to receive the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Medal for Distinguished Achievement. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place before the dance company’s performance.
sponsors
Robert and Helen Harvey
This tour of Paul Taylor Dance Company is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.
See the Academy Award-nominated Paul Taylor Dancemaker, a film by Matthew Diamond, at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 9, at the State Theatre in downtown State College. Tickets for the film, available at the State Theatre box office, are $5 each. Show your ticket for the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Eisenhower performance and get $2 off the price of a ticket to the film.
The Taylor 2 dance company performs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 11, at Penn State Altoona’s Misciagna Family Center for the Performing Arts.
