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Until two years ago, Taylor, 46, was his own principal dancer. Before he started his first troupe 21 years ago, he was a soloist with the Martha Graham company. Like George Balanchine, he almost always works with his own dancers, whose speed and athleticism are virtually his signature. Taylor calls his newest dance, Dust, "a subconscious stream of action that just bubbled up." The description applies to all his work. It seems spontaneous, serendipitous, full of abrupt exits and startling entrances. For Taylor, the glory of motion is where you find it: "I look at people in the streets...
...Paul Taylor dance may not leave the audience time to blink. Polaris is a bold conceit in which the choreography is repeated but the performers, music and lighting shift. In Cloven Kingdom, a satire on modern manners, the dancers slide between the human and animal kingdoms. The bright costumes of Post Meridian seem to make their own choreography. In Esplanade, one of Taylor's most popular works, there is no traditional dancing at all, but rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best...
...that his company is better financed, Taylor will follow the Lake Placid season with a six-week Latin American tour. Beyond that, he plans to go on quietly creating new works for his dancers. A shy, unflamboyant man, he does not fly into rages when rehearsals go badly. But once he did get off a memo that has been quoted ever since. Unable to pin down what was wrong, he did what he usually does: he made something up-in this case the word zunch. "Zunch is the magic that stays with the watchers after we are done. Zunch...
Married. Jack Hearn Watson Jr., 38, assistant to President Carter for intergovernmental affairs; and Teena Stern Mohr, fortyish, a dancer; both for the second time; in Atlanta...
...Manhattan, Studio 54, once the baroque Fortune Gallo Opera House and later a CBS studio, has been transformed into a dancer's Disneyland (membership $125 a year). The vast (5,000 sq. ft.) shuffle area is a stage, with theatrical lighting, scrims and backdrops rising as high as 85 ft. A dozen pencil-thin poles of red and yellow light blink, twirl, rise and fall amid the dancers; revolving silver prisms above the dance floor reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon...