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Festival of Dance 68-69
Sunday Matinee, November 24, 1968
Subscription Performance
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presents
The Paul Taylor Dance Company with
Paul Taylor
Bettie de Jong Daniel Williams Carolyn Adams
Jane Kosminsky Eileen Cropley Janet Arran
Cliff Keuter Karla Wolfangle Senta Driver 1 John Nightingale
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Orchestra Conductor: Simon Sadoff
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
The Paul Taylor Dance Company's participation in Festival of Dance 68·69 is made possible by grants from the Ford Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
The unauthorized use of photographic or recording equipment in this theatre is strictly prohibited.
(For program notes see pages 7, 11 and 14.) 4 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC NOVEMBER 1968
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(,rdcc kn )\\ the feeling. I he dct tti 300 p.tssengt't s. P.lSSt'llgt•r cargo vcssds oft" o t:R.,\C'I. Ll.:-\1', 31Q l'uhlic I t·d~n Building sizt• ''ith SIMciot ts -.t.Jtcrooms for just S"' ot lndrpcndence Snu Ht', l'hil,Hit'lpln.l, !',\. 19106 Go w1th Grace- to the Canbbean and South Amenca. BRO OKLYN ACADEMY OF M USIC I NOVEMBER 1968 / 5 DANCE IN BROOKLYN The month of November is an auspi and has established itself as one of cious one for the Academy of Music. the major patrons of the art. In the space of five weeks five modern-dance companies will give If November is modern-da nce twenty-eight performances in the month at the Academy, then Decem Opera House. This is the beginning ber is decidedly classical-dance of New York's most ambitious month. From December 10 through modern-dance season in history, and January 5 the highly praised Ameri it is beginning in Brooklyn. Later in can Ballet Theatre will be dancing the season four more weeks of in the Opera House. Th is spectacu modern dance will be given at the lar troupe, which just completed a Billy Rose Theatre in Manhattan as gala season last summer at the part of Festival of Dance 68-69. The Metro;Jolitan Opera House as part of Festival is produced jointly by the Lincoln Center's Festival '68, will Academy, Harvey Lichtenstein, di present thirty-two performances of rector and Th eatre 1969, Edward the great ballets of Western civiliza Albee and Ri chard Barr, directors. tion. The first week will be devoted to the company's "Swan Lake," described by the New York Times as The twenty-eight Brooklyn per "without . . . exception the best formances wil l include four revivals, "Swan Lake" in the world." On four world premieres and four New Wednesday, December 18, the world York premieres. The companies of premiere of a new ballet cho Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, reographed by Michael Smuin to Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor and Mozart's " Cassation no. 1 in G Alwin Nikolais will participate. major" will be danced by the com pany. Christmas week will provide a Festival of Dan ce 68-69 is partially special treat for chi ldren and their underwritten by grants from the adult escorts-eight performances of Ford Foundation and the New York a new production of "Coppelia." An State Council on the Arts. In an other highlight of the Brooklyn nouncing its grant, W. McNeil Lowry, season will be a revival of "Miss Ford Foundation vice president for Julie" featuring Carla Fracci and the Humanities and the Arts, sa id, Erick Bruhn. Miss Fracci and Mr. "Although the Foundation has not Bruhn as guest artists with the com been able to assume the continuing pany will also appea r in the pas de support of mdividual modern-dance deux from "Flower Festival at Gen companies, 1t is glad to respond to zano" and in " Giselle," which they a recurrent theme in all lea ding danced to critica l acclaim at Lincoln dancer-choreographers - their hope Cen ter in July. for a concentrated program on major stages." The New York State Council All told the American Ba llet on the Arts has made freq uent Th ea tre wi II give New York fow grants to promote modern dance glorious weeks of dance !:~ 8roo l Abraham and Straus Abraham and Straus. A&S. Whether you spell it out or use the initials you're talking about one of the best. For years Abraham and Straus has lead the way in Brooklyn, setting an example for the city and the nation in its involvement in civic and community affairs. It might be a fish fry in Prospect Park or an advertisement in the New York Ti mes for the local Brooklyn art show. It all adds up to concern. We at the Academy are especially grateful to A&S for its interest and assistance in our programs and goals. This support is invaluable to us and the Brooklyn community. No doubt you've seen those great A&S ads saluting the Academy. This time it's our turn to salute back. Bravo, A&S, bravo! BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968 / 7 I would like to make it clear from the start that these dances are primarily meant to be a kind of food for the eye. If they evoke dramatic images and riddles, the key to their solution lies not so much in the brain, but in the senses and the eye of the spectator. It was not my intention to present literary messages, although certain dances here have as their focal point a common subject with certain writings. But still, my "message," as Humphrey Bogart once sa id, "is nothing you cou ld send by Western Union." I can not say I have any revolutionary theories about dance. I am proud of my dance inheritance and the license which American dance has given me: the freedom to do whatever kinds of dances I feel are worth doing. Of course there is the aggrava ting and inescapable debt I owe to my teachers and mentors - Graham, Balanchine, Cunningham, Tudor, as we ll as others of my own generation. Most of all, my debt is to the dancers of my company, for they are the vitamins and the marrow, the very essence of this eye food we offer. -Pau l Taylor (Continued o .1 page 11 ) 8 BROOKLYN /.CADEMY OF MUSI C I NOVEMBER 1968 We can do it because we know There's only Brooklyn. Ve've been serving the banking needs of Brooklynites for one way more than 60 years. And ou r 45 of Manufacturers fices cover the Borough from end to end. Thafs more than any other bank. 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N.Y. FrcC' 1-u "'· BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF M USIC I NOVEMBER 1968 / 13 The Brooklyn Academy of Music rhe Brooklyn Academy of Music is a department of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The Governing Comm ittee Administrative Staff Seth S. Fai son, Chairman Harvey Lichtenstein, Director Edward S. Reid, Vice Chairman Lloyd Hezekiah, Assistant Director for Administration Monroe D. Stein, Vice Chairman John Latham, Han. Alexander Aldrich Assistant Director for Public Affairs Bernard S. Barr Lewis L. Lloyd, Assistant Director for Dance Production Mrs. H. Haughton Bell Jan Henry James, Associate, Publ ic Affairs Donald F. Benjamin Thomas Kerrigan, Dr. Edward G. Bernard Associate, Public Affairs Dr. William M. B1renoaum Betty Rosendorn, Administrator, School T1me Program John R. H. Blum Sarah Walder, Thomas A. Donnelly Administrator, Membership Program Gord on Braithwaite, William B. Hewson Dance Subscription Ma nager Winston E. Himswo rth Adele Allen, Administrative Secretary Rev. W. 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Abe Stark, Charles Brette, Custodian Borough Pres1 dent, Brooklyn Jerry Kean, Photographer 14 BROOKLYN ACADEMY O F MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968 ORBS Music: Last Quartets Op. 127 == 2, 133 and 130 by Ludwig van Beethoven Costumes and set by Alex Katz Choreography by Paul Taylor (F1rst performed in 1966) For the Pia nets Bettie de Jong and Cl iff Keuter Carolyn Ad ams and Daniel Williams For the Moons .... Eileen Cropley Jane Kosminsky Janet Aaron Senta Driver For the Sun ...... Paul Taylor INTRODUCTION II VENUSIAN SPRING 1. The Love School 2. Duets 3. Micro-orgy Ill MARTIAN SUMMER 1. Equatonal Heat 2. A Desert Crossing 3. Ashes INTERMISSION IV TERRESTRIAL AUTUMN 1. Mamage Rehearsal and Ceremony 2. Harvest Farce J Goodbyes V PLUTON IAN WINTER 1. D1st ress Signal 2. Flakes 3. Sleep VI CONCLUSION CRED ITS FOR THE PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Management. Charles Re1nhart Management, Inc., 510 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022 Production Stage Manager: Judith Dayk1n Costumes executed by Betty Williams, Eileen Holding and Brooks-Van Horn Costume Company Company photographer: Jack Mitchell Management for Rollino and Scheftel: Sheldon Soffer Management, Inc. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968 j 15 The BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK Assets Total Over $550,000,000 M AIN OFFICE: Corner of Fulton and M ontague Stree ts "In Th e B rooklyn Civic Center" COMl\IUTER BANKING OFFICE: Borough H all Subway Station Mezzanine between IRT and Bl\ IT B ay Ridge Offia: Bay Ridge Parkway and 13th Avenue K ings H ighway Office: Kings Highway and M cDonald Avenue Lake Succus Offia: U ni on Turnpike opposite Sperry, North New H yde Park, N.Y. 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