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Witty and whimsical writings about the dance of life by the legendary choreographer. This wonderful new book by one of the preeminent dancers and choreographers consists of a range of pieces of fact and fiction that run from thoughts on friendliness and country living to animosity and city life. Taylor’s first book since his autobiography (Private Domain, 1995, Alfred A. Knopf) is a romp through his playful mind, with chapter titles such as: Why I Make Dances, The Redheaded Spiritualist, Martha Close Up, Clytemnestra, How to Tell Ballet from Modern, and In the Marcel Proust Suite of L’Hotel Continental. “No other dancer ever looked like Paul Taylor, that strapping, elastic, goofy hunk ...
A one-time limited printing of 1,000 copies, this new book features a major dance of Paul Taylor’s per page – 59 in all – with a beautiful full-color photo for each. This beautiful tribute is filled with commentary by dance experts Robert Gottlieb and Susan Carbonneau, and additional text by Paul’s most famous dancers, and by Paul himself, including a letter from Paul to his dancers in 1974, published for the first time. The book is a 9’ x 12” paperback with French flap covers, and the front cover is a dramatic all-black matte cover.
Amerikansk balletdanser og koregraf
Tracing his life from an impoverished childhood to a final, bloody, painful performance in 1974, Paul Taylor writes with candor, wit and charm about his association with the dance world's greatest stars.
The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking—but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up, eager to see the next bit of magic. Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So, dressed in a commuter’s suit and tie, the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform. And in that image Matter found what he’d been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment, unself-conscious, present. Organized around themes of work, play, love, exploration, dreaming, and more, Dancers Among Us celebrates life in a way that’s fresh, surprising, original, universal. There’s no photoshopping here, no trampolines, no gimmicks, no tricks. Just a photographer, his vision, and the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolas, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor.
Paul Plumadore became dedicated to dance after one tap dancing lesson at age seven. Archive 1957-1974 is his memoir of that choice, culminating in his mid-20s with a stint in the internationally renowned Paul Taylor Dance Company. Utilizing many photographs from the period, it chronicles the joy as well as the agony of the life of a dancer coming-out during the sexual revolution in 1970's New York City.
Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --