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Paul Taylor Dance Company with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
July 13, 2024
Paul Taylor Dance Company with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

ERAN BUGGE
MADELYN HO
KRISTIN DRAUCKER
LEE DUVENECK
ALEX CLAYTON
DEVON LOUIS
JOHN HARNAGE
MARIA AMBROSE
LISA BORRES
JADA PEARMAN
SHAWN LESNIAK
JAKE VINCENT
JESSICA FERRETTI
AUSTIN KELLY
KENNY CORRIGAN
GABRIELLE BARNES
EMMY WILDERMUTH


Founding Artistic Director
PAUL TAYLOR

Artistic Director
MICHAEL NOVAK

Resident Choreographer
LAUREN LOVETTE

Rehearsal Directors
BETTIE DE JONG 
CATHY MCCANN

Principal Lighting Designers
JENNIFER TIPTON
JAMES F. INGALLS

Principal Set & Costume Designers
SANTO LOQUASTO
WILLIAM IVEY LONG

Executive Director
JOHN TOMLINSON


Leadership funding provided by Stephen Kroll Reidy.

Lincoln Center Season made possible by Marjorie S. Isaac. 

Major support provided by The SHS Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation.

Additional major funding provided by S&P Global, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Support for the creation of new work provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Paul Taylor Dance Company gratefully acknowledges the estates of Harlan Morse Blake and Mary J. Osborn for their transformational gifts.

Program

MERCURIC TIDINGS

Music by Franz Schubert: Excerpts from 
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Gene Moore
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First performed in 1982)

Eran Bugge, Madelyn Ho, Kristin Draucker

Alex Clayton, Devon Louis, John Harnage, Maria Ambrose

Lisa Borres, Jada Pearman, Shawn Lesniak

Jessica Ferretti, Austin Kelly, Kenny Corrigan


Original production made possible by a contribution from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Preservation made possible by Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, and by contributions to the Paul Taylor Repertory Preservation Project with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.


INTERMISSION


SYZYGY 

The nearly straight line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system

Music Composed for the Dance by Donald York
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Santo Loquasto
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First performed in 1987)

Madelyn Ho

Eran Bugge, Kristin Draucker, Lee Duveneck, Alex Clayton

Devon Louis, John Harnage, Maria Ambrose, Lisa Borres

Shawn Lesniak, Austin Kelly, Kenny Corrigan, Emmy Wildermuth


Original production made possible in part by The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Preservation made possible by contributions to the Paul Taylor Repertory Preservation Project with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.


INTERMISSION


PROMETHEAN FIRE

Fire “that can thy light relume”
— William Shakespeare

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
Toccata & Fugue in D minor, Prelude in E-flat minor
and Chorale Prelude BWV 680
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Santo Loquasto
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First performed in 2002)

Devon Louis, Eran Bugge

Madelyn Ho, Kristin Draucker, Lee Duveneck

Alex Clayton, John Harnage, Maria Ambrose

Lisa Borres, Jada Pearman, Shawn Lesniak, Jake Vincent

Jessica Ferretti, Austin Kelly, Kenny Corrigan, Gabriella Barnes


Commissioned by the American Dance Festival through the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and Samuel H. Scripps.

Original production also made possible with support from Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown. Creation made possible by contributions to the Paul Taylor New Works Fund.


This performance is made possible by The Carnahan-Jackson Dance Endowment.

Notes

The taking of photographs and the use of recording devices are strictly prohibited.

Program and casting are subject to change.

Latecomers will be seated only during intermissions.

Please silence all mobile devices during the performance.

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