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Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris | Bel Air BAC095

Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris

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Label: Bel Air

Cat No: BAC095

Barcode: 3760115300958

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 3rd June 2013

Contents

Artists

Aileen Roehl
Amy Young
Eran Bugge
Francisco Graciano
Heather Mcginley
James Samson
Jamie Rae Walker
Jeffrey Smith
Laura Halzack
Michael Apuzzo
Michael Novak
Michael Trusnovec
Michelle Fleet
Parisa Khobdeh
Robert Kleinendorst
Sean Mahoney
Paul Taylor Dance Company

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Brandenburgs (ballet - arrangment of nos 3 & 6)

Poulenc, Francis

Gloria (arranged for ballet as 'Beloved Renegade'

Artists

Aileen Roehl
Amy Young
Eran Bugge
Francisco Graciano
Heather Mcginley
James Samson
Jamie Rae Walker
Jeffrey Smith
Laura Halzack
Michael Apuzzo
Michael Novak
Michael Trusnovec
Michelle Fleet
Parisa Khobdeh
Robert Kleinendorst
Sean Mahoney
Paul Taylor Dance Company

About

Paul Taylor is widely considered to be one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century. He is among the last living members of the second generation of America’s modern dance artists and has continued to win acclaim for his recent creations as well as stagings of his earlier works. As prolific as ever, he may propel his dancers through space for the sheer beauty of it, or use them to wordlessly illuminate war, spirituality, sexuality, morality and mortality.

This programme was recorded in 2012 at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris and is composed of two ballets.

First performed in 1988 to music from Bach’s Brandenburg concertos 3 and 6, 'Brandenburgs' is cast for a man and three women, plus an ensemble of five men. In an unusual stroke for Taylor, he uses the male quintet as a proper corps de ballet - that is, they frame the action and move only as a group, anonymously. The sharp hierarchical distinction between soloists and ensemble accounts for one aspect of the dance’s classical feel. More important, though, is the ensemble’s attitude toward the soloists.

Set to Francis Poulenc’s 'Gloria', the dance 'Beloved Renegade' was inspired by the life and work of 19th-century American writer Walt Whitman, who revered body and soul as one and who famously loved all with equal ardour. It depicts the experiences of an artist described in a line from Whitman’s 'Leaves of Grass': “I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul.”

Contents:
J S Bach: Brandenburgs - opus 88 (1988)
with Michael Trusnovec, Amy Young, Parisa Khobdeh, Eran Bugge, Robert Kleinendorst, James Samson, Sean Mahoney, Michael Apuzzo, Michael Novak

Poulenc: Beloved Renegade - opus 129 (2008)
with Michael Trusnovec, Amy Young, Robert Kleinendorst, James Samson, Laura Halzack, Michelle Fleet, Parisa Khobdeh, Sean Mahoney, Jeffrey Smith, Eran Bugge, Francisco Graciano, Jamie Rae Walker, Michael Apuzzo, Aileen Roehl, Heather Mcginley

Press Reviews:
Beauty is the only word for 'Brandenburgs'… [which] celebrates the good things in life. Such a radiant, seamless flow of invention that the choreography seems an entirely natural way of moving to this music.” - Mary Clarke, The Guardian

The best new choreography in 2008. Deeply moving... a work of philosophic as well as dramatic power. Mr Taylor ranks among the great war poets... One of the great achievements of his long career and one of the most eloquently textured feats of his singular imagination.” - Alastair Macaulay, New York Times (Beloved Renegade)

55 minutes (ballets) & 11 min bonus: 'Paul Taylor: Architect of Energy'
Sound: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
1 DVD9 NTSC, colour, 16:9
Region Code: 0

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