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PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS is part of annual Paul Taylor season at City Center (photo by Paul B. Goode)

City Center
130 West 56th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
February 22 – March 6, $10-$150
www.ptdc.org
www.nycitycenter.org

Called the “naughty boy” of dance by Martha Graham more than fifty years ago, Paul Taylor has been pushing the envelope for some six decades. The Washington, DC, native has taken his company to more than five hundred cities in sixty-two countries, and today the Paul Taylor Dance Company kicks off its annual season at City Center with a gala performance and dinner at Cipriani 42nd St. with a bill that includes Esplanade, the New York premiere of Three Dubious Memories, and Oh, You Kid!, with live music by Rick Benjamin’s Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. The season continues through March 6 with another New York premiere, Phantasmagoria, in addition to such repertory pieces as The Word, Brief Encounters, Cloven Kingdom, Promethean Fire, Company B, Orbs, Also Playing, and Dust. On March 1, they will present a Great Depression Special, pairing Black Tuesday with Speaking in Tongues; tickets are still available in the $5 and $19.29 seats. While most of the post-1987 works feature costumes by longtime Woody Allen set designer Santo Loquasto, Alex Katz designed the set and costumes for 1966’s Orbs, while John Rawlings handled the costumes for 1975’s Esplanade, Rawlings and Scott Barrie were responsible for 1976’s Cloven Kingdom, and Gene Moore took care of Dust. The lighting is by the inimitable Jennifer Tipton, with the pieces set to a wide range of music, from Beethoven, Bach, and Donizetti to Poulenc, Debussy, and the Andrews Sisters.

FALL FOR DANCE

Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence Dance Company will perform GRACE at this year’s Fall for Dance Festival at City Center (photo by Paul Kolnick)

NY City Center
130 West 56th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
September 28 – October 10
Tickets: $10
212-581-1212
www.nycitycenter.org

The annual Fall for Dance Festival at City Center runs September 28 through October 9, but you better not wait to get tickets, because they go extremely fast — not only because they offer a chance to see some great dance companies but also because they cost only ten bucks apiece. This year’s lineup includes performances by Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Gallim Dance, Madhavi Mudgal, and the Miami City Ballet, and that’s only the first two nights. Other programs feature Company Rafaela Carrasco, the New York City Ballet, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Companhia Urbana de Dança (9/30 and 10/1), Shu-Yi & (Dancers) Company, the San Francisco Ballet, Emanuel Gat Dance, and Paul Taylor Dance Company (10/2-3), Keigwin + Company with Juilliard Dance, Corella Ballet Castilla y León, Russell Maliphant Company, and Jason Samuels Smith & Friends (10/6-7), and Tero Saarinen Company, Dresden Semperoper Ballett, American Ballet Theatre, and Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company (10/8-9).