The legendary Paul Taylor Dance Company will be in residence for three weeks, rehearsing and performing two works from its repertory of modern classics, Company B and Esplanade. In Company B, Taylor juxtaposes the high spirits of the early 1940s with the human toll of a young nation at war, transporting the audience with musical selections of the iconic Andrews Sisters. Young lovers lindy, jitterbug and polka in a near-manic grasp for happiness while in the background shadowy figures – soldiers – fall dead. Esplanade, The definitive Paul Taylor work, is at once playful, somber, romantic and explosive.
