Paul Taylor Dance Company

"Cascade", "Sunset", "Offenbach Overtures"
Paul Taylor Dance Company
David H. Koch Theater
Lincoln Center
New York, NY
November 23, 2025

The final program of the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s 2025 Fall season was an all-Taylor afternoon ranging from the pristine classicism of his 1999 Bach-inspired “Cascade” to the 1995 “Offenbach Overtures” raucously comic send up of ballet cliches, with a detour to “Sunset”, Taylor’s 1983 lyrically mournful picture of young sailors set to Edward Elgar. The program was

First Program: "Vive la Loïe", "Takademe", "Solitaire", "Company B"
Second Program: "Sunset", "Under the Rhythm", "Beloved Renegade"
Paul Taylor Dance Company
David H. Koch Theater
Lincoln Center
New York, NY
November 12, 2025 (first program) and November 13, 2025 (second program)

The Paul Taylor Dance Company is facing the same questions that other companies whose repertories are based on the founding choreographer are facing—how to continue when the source of new works is no longer around. 

"Company B", "Scudorama", "Diggity"
Paul Taylor Dance Company
David H. Koch Theater
Lincoln Center
New York, NY
November 7, 2025

It may have been accidental but this all-Taylor program had a canine theme--there were lots of dogs, flat metallic ones sitting on the stage for the dancers  in the final work, “Diggity”, to maneuver around and Taylor has also explained that one of the inspirations for the middle work, the inscrutably surrealistic “Scudorama” was the memory of a dog