UMS Concert Program, January 26, 1979: The Paul Taylor Dance Company -- Paul Taylor

Concert: Fortyfourth
Complete Series: Eighth Annual
Power Center For The Performing Arts Ann Arbor, Michigan

THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
The Paul Taylor Dance Company
BETTIE DE JONG CAROLYN ADAMS MONICA MORRIS ELIE CHAIB
LILA YORK RUTH ANDRIEN LINDA KENT ROBERT KAHN
VICTORIA URIS CHRISTOPHER GILLIS SUSAN McGUIRE
THOMAS EVERT DAVID PARSONS
Paul Taylor, Chairman, Board of Directors
Robert Yesselman, General Manager Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Designer John Herbert McDowell, Gerald Tarack, Donald York, Musical Directors
Friday Evening, January 26, 1979, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
DIGGITY
(1978)
Music specially composed by Donald York
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Set and Costumes by Alex Katz
Lighting by Mark Litvin
Monica Morris Christopher Gillis
Lila York Linda Kent Victoria Uris Susan McGuire Thomas Evert David Parsons
INTERMISSION
PRIVATE DOMAIN
(1969) Music by Iannis Xenakis, Atrees
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes and Scenery by Alex Katz
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
Carolyn Adams Monica Morris Elie Chaib
Lila York Ruth Andrien Linda Kent
Thomas Evert Christopher Gillis
intermission
CLOVEN KINGDOM
(1976)
"Man is a social animal."--Spinoza
Music by Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Cowell and Malloy Miller;
combined by John Herbert McDowell
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Headpieces by John Rawlings
Women's costumes by Scott Barrie
Men's formal wear by After Six, Inc.
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
An antic view of the coexistence of social veneer and primitive instinct and a few of the eternal differences and similarities between men and women.
Carolyn Adams Monica Morris Lila York Ruth Andrien
Linda Kent Elie Chaib Christopher Gillis Thomas Evert
David Parsons Victoria Uris Susan McGuire
About the Company
In writing for the New York Times, Clive Barnes recently said, "Paul Taylor is a genius-and this is a word not to be used lightly." He has been a dominant force in dance for over two decades. From 1955 until 1962 he was a soloist with the Martha Graham Company, and in 1959 danced with the New York City Ballet as guest artist in George Balanchine's Episodes, a solo so uniquely his own that it was discontinued when he left the Company. Since the formation of his own company, Paul Taylor has choreographed over seventyfive dances for it.
Now in its twentysecond year, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has danced in over two hundred cities in the United States, completed twentyfour overseas tours, and represented the United States in the arts festivals of thirtyfive different nations. A recent tour of the Soviet Union (September 18 through October 15) with a total of twentyone performances in the cities of Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, and Vilnius, is the twelfth State Department tour the Company has undertaken. In addition to its current nationwide tour and a spring season in New York City, future plans call for a European tour in the fall of 1979 with dates already scheduled in London and Paris.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company has previously appeared here in 1964, 1965, and 1975; all dances this weekend are first Ann Arbor performances.
The two performances of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, plus two master classes in the University Dance Department, comprise a dance residency under the Dance Touring Program, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts.
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