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Article: Paul Taylor Dance Company.
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- Dance Magazine
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- June 1, 2009
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New York City Center, NYC * February 25-March 15, 2009
Amid the many tributes to the Ballets Russes in its centennial year, one arrived unheralded: the Paul Taylor Dance Company's warm-hearted and exciting engagement at City Center in March.
Taylor's bumptious repertory mostly celebrates itself, of course. Yet the 78-year-old dancemaker has a sense of history, and his admiration for past genius runs deeper than that of his contemporaries. The influence of the Ballets Russes (1909-1929) not only surfaces in Taylor's 1980 Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal), but also more particularly in his fondness for lighthearted ...