PILLOWNOTES JACOB’S PILLOW EXTENDS SPECIAL THANKS by Suzanne Carbonneau TO OUR VISIONARY LEADERS The PillowNotes comprises essays commissioned from our Scholars-in-Residence to provide audiences with a broader context for viewing dance. VISIONARY LEADERS form an important foundation of support and demonstrate their passion for and commitment to Jacob’s Pillow through It is said that the body doesn’t lie, but this is wishful thinking. All earthly creatures do it, only some more artfully than others. annual gifts of $10,000 and above. —Paul Taylor, Private Domain Their deep affiliation ensures the success and longevity of the It was Martha Graham, materfamilias of American modern dance, who coined that aphorism about the inevitability of truth Pillow’s annual offerings, including educational initiatives, free public emerging from movement. Considered oracular since its first utterance, over time the idea has only gained in currency as one of programs, The School, the Archives, and more. those things that must be accurate because it sounds so true. But in gently, decisively pronouncing Graham’s idea hokum, choreographer Paul Taylor drew on first-hand experience— $25,000+ observations about the world he had been making since early childhood. To wit: Everyone lies. And, characteristically, in his 1987 autobiography Private Domain, Taylor took delight in the whole business: “I eventually appreciated the artistry of a movement Carole* & Dan Burack Christopher Jones* & Deb McAlister PRESENTS lie,” he wrote, “the guilty tail wagging, the overly steady gaze, the phony humility of drooping shoulders and caved-in chest, the PAUL TAYLOR The Barrington Foundation Wendy McCain decorative-looking little shuffles of pretended pain, the heavy, monumental dances of mock happiness.” Frank & Monique Cordasco Fred Moses* DANCE COMPANY Hon. Stephan P. Driscoll*, in honor and memory Jennie A. Kassanoff & Dan H. Schulman Casting his gimlet eye on these commonplace deceits, Taylor could see extraordinary richness—nothing less than beauty—in such of John Lindquist & Barton Mumaw Mark & Taryn Leavitt artifice. And these are lessons that he took to heart in making his abundantly detailed, carefully reported, and psychologically Ted Shawn Theatre Stephanie & Robert ‡ Gittleman Sylvia T. Pope* astute creations. Taylor discovered that in choreography, it took something like a fish story—not the body in its natural Carolyn Gray & George Peppard Robert & Eileen Rominger understatement, but movement extended, heightened, repeated, varied, structured, framed, costumed, lit—that allowed the Joan & Jim Hunter July 24-28, 2019 audience to experience the “aha” of something that felt awfully close to truth. After early experiments with minimalism that ignored the audience, a dose of expansiveness, a measure of wishfulness seemed in order. “Calculated lies,” Taylor called his dances. FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Taylor $10,000+ In all this talk about lying, the irony is, of course, that there are few choreographers who have told us more truths than Paul Taylor. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Novak Dr. Norman Abramson Ann* & Peter Herbst The fecundity of Taylor’s imagination sent him foraging through a breathtaking range of subject matter and styles in search of Deborah & Charles Adelman Laura* & Nick Ingoglia it. But these truths are never simple. In the nearly 150 dances he made in his lifetime, Taylor produced a repertory of enormous Aliad Fund Nancy K. Kalodner REHEARSAL DIRECTORS Bettie de Jong breadth that asks us to acknowledge the infernal complications of human nature and experience. Taken together, these dances Rick & Nurit Amdur Amy & Richard Kohan Andy LeBeau present a portrait of life in our time that churns with ambiguity and complexity. (Fitting, of course, for a species addicted to lying.) Candace* & Rick Beinecke Lizbeth & George Krupp It’s what we so much appreciated about Taylor as a dancemaker—this is how it is, Taylor told us. Linda & Bob Berzok Jack & Elizabeth Meyer, in honor of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR John Tomlinson Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diane & Deval Patrick Taylor famously said that he was a “reporter,” that he choreographed what he saw. And it is true that for all their deep poetics, David Carlisle & Morene Bodner Hans* & Kate Morris his dances were investigative rather than autobiographical, the choreographer standing outside his creations with penetrating PRINCIPAL LIGHTING DESIGNERS Jennifer Tipton Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation Gov. Deval L. & Diane Patrick and analytic gaze. But while his eye for preternaturally telling detail made the dances seem like dispatches from reality, Taylor James F. Ingalls Neil* & Kathleen Chrisman Claudia Perles was probably more novelist than reporter because what he trusted as much as his eye was his imagination. (“This trust I have Ranny Cooper & David Smith Caren & Barry Roseman never lost,” he wrote.) Taylor said that he was sympathetic to an idea of novelist E.L. Doctorow who declared his historical novel PRINCIPAL SET & Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Hunter K. Runnette* & Mark P. VandenBosch The March—tethered by facts but even more rife with imagined events—“a system of opinions.” In responding to this idea, Taylor COSTUME DESIGNERS Santo Loquasto David DeFilippo & Lisa Shapiro, in memory of Naomi Seligman & Ernie von Simson remarked that perhaps artists are liars or fantasists rather than reporters, that a dance is an accumulation of a person’s notions William Ivey Long Robert Gittleman Mark Sena & Linda Saul-Sena rather than the unvarnished truth. Hermine Drezner Natalie & Howard Shawn Sheila Drill Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay DANCERS Robert Kleinendorst Received wisdom has it that Taylor’s works fall into categories of Light and Dark, and certainly he made some of the most tender Nancy & Michael Feller Roger Tilles Michelle Fleet and exquisite as well as the most black-hearted and disturbing works on the concert stage. How could the creator of Airs (1978), David & Nina Fialkow in honor of Stephen Weiner & Donald Cornuet which suggests nothing less than the possibility of human perfection, have been the same soul peering into the bottomless well of Parisa Khobdeh Deval & Diane Patrick and Mark A. Leavitt Ellen Weissman depravity in Last Look (1985)? But throughout his career, Taylor presented us with such antipodes. Sean Mahoney Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mark & Liz Williams Joan* & Charlie Gross Elaine* & Irving Wolbrom Eran Bugge Still, the classic conflict between light and darkness doesn’t begin to come to terms with the real convolutions of Taylor, who Jamie Rae Walker seemed always aware of the complexity of people, and their infinite capacities for the admixture of exaltation and depravity. Michael Apuzzo Taylor was forever interested in what lurks beneath the surface of those wagging tails, those drooping shoulders. (Those lies!) His * Former Trustees, staff, faculty, interns, Michael Novak The School’s dancers, or arists-in-residence dances find glory in contradiction, with their suggestion that the labyrinth of human nature is not to be underestimated. Heather McGinley ‡ deceased Taylor knew that not all lies are bad. Artifice is, after all, the basis of artmaking. In art, the world is idealized, given back to us in George Smallwood Platonic form with such devices as harmony, symmetry, proportion, order, structure. These are all the tricks of craft—Taylor’s Christina Lynch Markham INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT “calculated lies”—that allow us, in seeing who we could potentially be, insight into who we actually are. Still, Taylor knew the Madelyn Ho difference between artistry and duplicity, and he was not afraid to tell us so. As of May 23, 2019 major support for Jacob’s Pillow has been generously provided by the Kristin Draucker following institutions: The Arison Arts Foundation; Arnhold Foundation; The Barr Foundation; The Barrington Foundation; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield So Taylor was, after all, our Honest Abe—in Lincoln Kirstein’s estimation, “the shrewd democratic citizen” who understood his Lee Duveneck of Massachusetts; The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation; The Feigenbaum Foundation; Gladys audience as “an electorate.” And for over sixty years, we the people voted for him in landslide after landslide. Alex Clayton Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Harkness Devon Louis* Foundation for Dance; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The John S. and James L. Knight When Paul Taylor died last August at the age of 88, his obituary ran across the center of the front page of the New York Times and John Harnage covered two more pages inside the print edition. Taylor’s death was also noted around the world: publications on every continent, Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; MassDevelopment; The Andrew Maria Ambrose W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; save Antarctica, celebrated his indelible transformation of twentieth-century dance. It is no exaggeration to say that Taylor is one National Endowment for the Arts; Onota Foundation; The Prospect Hill Foundation; The Shubert of the most important American artists who ever lived. He left behind a repertory of 147 dances of immense genius that depicted Lisa Borres Foundation; The Robert and Tina Sohn Foundation; The Spingold Foundation; Talented Students human nature in all of its glories and failings. And in so profoundly limning the human condition, Taylor ensured that his life’s work in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Surdna will continue to feel necessary to us—perhaps increasingly so, in a culture where the nature of truth itself is under siege. Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; The Velmans Foundation; Weissman Family Foundation; and Jacob’s Pillow Business Partners. © 2019 Suzanne Carbonneau and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival *Alumnus of The School at Jacob’s Pillow Suzanne Carbonneau’s biography of Paul Taylor is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paul Taylor Dance Company’s engagement at Jacob’s Pillow is supported, in part, by a leadership contribution from Carole and Dan Burack. PROGRAM MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS to 2012 and left to attend Harvard Modern Dance “Taylor Company performed with Elisa Monte EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT Aureole (1962) Medical School, during which time Commissions” choreographer Lila Dance, The Classical Theatre she was a guest artist for Alison Cook of Harlem, LEVYdance, JACOB’S PILLOW CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor York when she created Continuum in Beatty Dance and performed with 2016. He joined the Paul Taylor Dance AThomasProject, and Earl Urbanity Dance. She joined the Paul Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. In MUSIC George Frideric Handel; excerpts from “Concerti Grossi in C, F” and “Jephtha” Company in Summer 2017. JOIN OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS & SUPPORT THE Taylor Dance Company in Spring 2015 2018, she traveled to China as an MISSION OF JACOB’S PILLOW. COSTUME DESIGN George Tacet and completed her Doctorate of DEVON LOUIS (Dancer) hails from ambassador for Parsons Dance to Medicine in May 2018. Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of teach dance to young musicians, You can help the Pillow present outstanding dance artists LIGHTING DESIGN Thomas Skelton Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He and then to Japan as part of the from around the world, provide training and support to KRISTIN DRAUCKER (Dancer) was attended The Ailey School as a recipient Dance International Program. born in Washington D.C. and grew up of the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship, She began studying at The Taylor the talented dancers of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, maintain DANCERS Sean Mahoney our landmark site, and create free community programs Christina Lynch Markham in York, Pennsylvania. She began her and furthered his dance education at School in 2012, and joined the Robert Kleinendorst training at the Central Pennsylvania The School at Jacob’s Pillow under the Paul Taylor Dance Company in that engage people of all ages and backgrounds with dance. Michelle Fleet Youth Ballet under Marcia Dale direction of Milton Myers. Mr. Louis Spring 2019. Heather McGinley Weary. In 2005 she was awarded has performed works by Alvin Ailey, a Fellowship to study Horton and Matthew Rushing, Christopher Huggins, LISA BORRES (Dancer) is a native 1 Mr. Kleinendorst, Ms. Fleet, Ms. McGinley, Ms. Lynch Markham, Graham at The Ailey School. Since Nathan Trice, Ronald K. Brown, and of Staten Island, New York, and a 2 Mr. Mahoney moving to New York City she has Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. He has also graduate of LaGuardia High School EVERY GIFT MATTERS. 3 Ms. Fleet, Mr. Kleinendorst, Ms. McGinley, Ms. Lynch Markham danced with Michael Mao Dance, performed as a member of Ballet of Music & Art and Performing JOIN AND CHOOSE THE LEVEL RIGHT FOR YOU! 4 Ms. Lynch Markham and Mr. Mahoney ArmitageGone!Dance, New Chamber Hispanico’s junior company, BHdos; Arts. At The Hartt School of the 5 Full Cast Ballet, and at Bard’s Summerscape The Metropolitan Opera; and Nimbus University of Hartford, from Explore the full list of benefits, join as a new Member, renew your in Les Huguenots. In 2009 she joined Dance Works. Louis joined the Paul which she graduated in 2011, Original Production made possible by the 1962 American Dance Festival at current membership, or upgrade to a higher level the 50th Anniversary International Taylor Dance Company in Summer she studied with Stephen Pick Connecticut College. at jacobspillow.org/support/membership. Tour of West Side Story and in 2010 2018. and Katie Stevenson-Nollet and Preservation made possible by Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, and by contributions performed in Tino Sehgal’s KISS at danced in works by Martha to the Paul Taylor Repertory Preservation Project with support from the National the Guggenheim Museum. Draucker JOHN HARNAGE (Dancer) is a native Graham and Pascal Rioult. She You can also make a donation by phone at 413.243.9919 x122. Endowment for the Arts. began creating dances in 2014 and of Miami, Florida, and studied dance participated in Summer Intensives has shown her work in New York, at the Miami City Ballet School and at the Joffrey Ballet School, Sustaining members support the Pillow year-round through easy, Philadelphia, and as part of the New World School of the Arts. He was Martha Graham Dance Company, automatic monthly or quarterly gifts. - INTERMISSION - LaMAMA Umbria Festival in Spoleto, a Modern Dance Finalist in the 2010 Alvin Ailey American Dance Italy. She joined the Paul Taylor Dance National Foundation for Advancement Theatre, and Parsons Dance, and Company in Winter 2017. in the YoungArts competition. In 2014 has taught dance at The Hartt he graduated from The Juilliard School, School. Since 2012, Borres has Depending on your level, membership gives you access to: Concertiana (2018) LEE DUVENECK (Dancer) grew up in where he performed works by José been part of the selection process Early Ticketing Arlington, Texas, where he trained for Ballet Tech, Eliot Feld’s tuition- CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor Limón, Alexander Ekman, Pina Bausch, Fan level & above with Anne Oswalt and Gwen Price. and Lar Lubovitch, among others. free school that draws its students MUSIC Eric Ewazen In 2010 he earned his B.F.A. in He then began working with Jessica from the NYC public school Admission to Cast Parties Dance Performance from Southern Lang Dance, and joined the company system, whose diversity reflects Contributor level & above COSTUME DESIGN William Ivey Long Methodist University, where he in 2015, performing and teaching the full American spectrum. She studied with Taylor alumna Ruth around the world. He also performed has performed with Amy Marshall Pillow Lab showings where you can witness the creative process LIGHTING DESIGN James F. Ingalls Andrien and jazz dance icon Danny as a principal dancer in Washington Dance Company, Elisa Monte Supporter level & above Buraczeski. While in New York, he has National Opera’s 2017 production of Dance, DAMAGEdance, Lydia DANCERS Sean Mahoney danced for Annmaria Mazzini, Mari Aida at the John F. Kennedy Center for Johnson Dance, and LEVYdance. Priority Parking Passes Eran Bugge Meade, and Jessica Gaynor. Duveneck the Performing Arts. Harnage joined She joined the Paul Taylor Dance Partners’ Circle level & above Michael Apuzzo joined Taylor 2 in 2012, and joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Fall Company in Spring 2019. Michael Novak the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 2018. Invitations to Member-Exclusive Events Heather McGinley Summer 2017. George Smallwood MARIA AMBROSE (Dancer) grew up Discounts in The Pillow Store Christina Lynch Markham ALEX CLAYTON (Dancer) grew up in in Meredith, New Hampshire and Madelyn Ho Louisville, Kentucky, and received began her dance training at age four Lee Duveneck his B.F.A. in Dance with a Minor in under the direction of Sally Downs. Alex Clayton Visual Arts from Stephens College in She furthered her training with Edra Help make dance creation, presentation, education, and John Harnage 2013. He was a Graham 2 company Toth and performed with the Boston preservation at Jacob’s Pillow possible. member from 2014 to 2015. He also Dance Company. She attended George performed with companies including Mason University where she was Thank you! - INTERMISSION - 10 Hairy Legs, Abarukas Project, awarded the Harriet Mattusch Special Curet Performance Project, and Recognition in Dance, and graduated Performa15. He served as Rehearsal Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Assistant for Paul Taylor American Dance Performance in 2011. She has PROGRAM the company, which he rejoined studying on full scholarship at The native of New Orleans. He earned a in 2000. Mahoney was chosen as Taylor School. In 2018 she danced B.F.A. in Dance Performance and a Promethean Fire (2002) one of the first members of Taylor in the feature film The Chaperone Bachelor of Business Administration Fire “that can thy light relume” 2 in 1993. He has danced for David choreographed by John Carrafa. with an International Focus from Parsons, Alex Tressor, and Geoffrey Walker joined Taylor 2 in September Southern Methodist University. -William Shakespeare Doig-Marx, and performed in Radio 2003 and became a member of the He has been a member of the City’s Christmas Spectacular. As a Paul Taylor Dance Company in May Parsons Dance Company, where frequent guest teacher, Mahoney 2008. he performed the signature solo CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor has taught master classes at such Caught, and the Martha Graham institutions as Towson University, MICHAEL APUZZO (Dancer) grew and Lar Lubovitch companies. As MUSIC Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Leopold Stokowski; “Toccata & Princeton Ballet School, Santiago up in North Haven, Connecticut. He co-founder of Battleworks, he Fugue in D minor”, “Prelude in E-flat minor”, and “Chorale Prelude Ballet, and Lafayette High School studied Economics and Theater at performed, taught master classes, BWV 680” for the Performing Arts. He rejoined Yale University, graduating Magna and re-staged Robert Battle’s works Taylor 2 in 2002, and made his Cum Laude in 2005. Growing up in across the country. He has been in COSTUME DESIGN Santo Loquasto debut with the Paul Taylor Dance musical theater, he began his formal regional productions of Spamalot, Company in Spring 2004. dance training in high school, Chicago, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, LIGHTING DESIGN Jennifer Tipton then danced and choreographed Crazy for You, The Music Man, DANCERS ERAN BUGGE (Dancer) is from in undergraduate companies. White Christmas, Seven Brides for Michael Novak Oviedo, Florida where she began After being dance captain for an Seven Brothers, and 42nd Street. Eran Bugge her dance training at the Orlando original production of Miss Julie He joined the Paul Taylor Dance Robert Kleinendorst Ballet School, and went on to study choreographed by Peter Pucci, Company temporarily in Spring Jamie Rae Walker at The Hartt School at the University Apuzzo debuted professionally 2011 and rejoined in Summer 2012. Michael Apuzzo of Hartford under the direction of at the Yale Repertory Theater. He Heather McGinley Peggy Lyman, graduating Summa has since performed in numerous CHRISTINA LYNCH MARKHAM George Smallwood Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Ballet musicals at equity theaters across (Dancer) grew up in Westbury, New Christina Lynch Markham Pedagogy in 2005. She attended the country and in the National Tour York and began dancing with Lori Madelyn Ho The Taylor School and the 2004 and of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Shaw, and continued at Holy Trinity Kristin Draucker 2005 Taylor Summer Intensives. Movin’ Out. He is a second-degree High School under the direction of Lee Duveneck Bugge has performed in works by black belt in Tae Kwon Do, author Catherine Murphy. She attended Alex Clayton Amy Marshall, Katie Stevinson- of Flying Through Yellow, certified Hofstra University on scholarship Devon Louis Nollet, and Jean Grand-Maître. personal trainer, and co-producer and performed works by Cathy John Harnage She was also a member of Full of the Hamptons charity event, McCann, Karla Wolfangle, Rachel Maria Ambrose Force Dance Theatre and the Hartt Dancers For Good. He joined Paul List, Robin Becker, and Lance Alumni Award. In 2018, she danced Taylor Dance Company in Fall 2008. Westergard. During college, she also Commissioned by the American Dance Festival through in the feature film The Chaperone trained at The Taylor School, and the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and Samuel H. Scripps. choreographed by John Carrafa. HEATHER MCGINLEY (Dancer) grew attended the Company’s Summer Original production also made possible with support from Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown. She joined the Paul Taylor Dance up in St. Louis, Missouri. Through Intensive Program. After graduating Creation made possible by contributions to the Paul Taylor New Works Fund. Company in Fall 2005. her early training with Lisbeth Summa Cum Laude in 2004, she Brown, she attained a diploma in danced with the Amy Marshall JAMIE RAE WALKER (Dancer) began the Cecchetti method of classical Dance Company, Stacie Nelson, and dancing at age three in her home ballet. She graduated from Butler The Dance Theater Company. She town of Levittown, Pennsylvania. University with a B.F.A. in Dance joined Taylor 2 in Summer 2008, As a young dancer, she performed Performance in 2005. She was and made her debut with the Paul with American Repertory Ballet a member of Graham II for two Taylor Dance Company in Summer while extensively studying ballet seasons and went on to perform 2013. and Graham techniques. In 1991 with the Martha Graham Dance she continued her training at Company from 2008 to 2011. With MADELYN HO, M.D. (Dancer) is Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, the Graham Company, she toured from Sugar Land, Texas where she and in 1992 was awarded a full Italy in the original cast of Antonio began dancing at Kinard Dance scholarship by Violette Verdy at Calenda’s Looking for Picasso, a School and later trained with Northeast Regional Dance Festival. dance and theater piece featuring BalletForte under the artistic Jacob’s Pillow is committed to providing an environment that cultivates the celebration of the art of dance Upon graduating high school, restaged classic Graham ballets. In direction of Michael Banigan. She and its positive impact on community. Walker was invited by Edward 2018 she danced in the feature film graduated from Harvard College While in our theaters, please refrain from behavior that could disturb other patrons and performers during the performance. We ask that you: silence your cell Villella to join Miami City Ballet The Chaperone choreographed by with a B.A. in Chemical and Physical phone; do not photograph or video record performances; keep your ticket with you at all times; observe that food and beverages are not allowed, with the exception of water; and please let a staff member know if you need help. where she performed principal John Carrafa. She participated in Biology. While there, she was Thank you for observing these House Rules so that everyone can have an enjoyable experience. and soloist roles in Balanchine and the 2010 Intensives at The Taylor awarded the Artist Development If you have any suggestions, comments, or incidents to report, please direct them to Taylor dances from 1994 to 2000. School, and joined Paul Taylor Fellowship and attended the Taylor Deputy Director A. J. Pietrantone, at [email protected] In 2001 she joined the original cast Dance Company in Spring 2011. School Winter Intensive. She was We are so glad you are here. Enjoy the show! of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, a member of Taylor 2 from 2008 Movin’ Out, while simultaneously GEORGE SMALLWOOD (Dancer) is a to 2012 and left to attend Harvard COMPANY PAUL TAYLOR (Founding Artistic “among the great war poets” – controversy in 1970 by putting in 2016 marked its fifth tour there, seen on CBS-TV with Rudolf She joined Taylor 2 in Summer 1999 Director) was one of the most high praise indeed for an artist in incest and spousal abuse center with plans to return in November Nureyev in a duet choreographed and made her debut with the Paul accomplished artists this nation has a wordless medium. While some stage in Big Bertha. 2018. The company regularly tours by Paul Taylor. de Jong joined the Taylor Dance Company in September ever produced. He helped shape of his dances have been termed throughout North America, South Taylor Company in 1962. Noted for 2002. and define America’s homegrown “dark” and others “light,” the After retiring as a performer in America, Asia, and Europe. her strong stage presence and long art of modern dance from the majority of his works are dualistic, 1974, Mr. Taylor turned exclusively line, she was Mr. Taylor’s favorite PARISA KHOBDEH (Dancer) was earliest days of his career as a mixing elements of both extremes. to choreography, resulting in a While continuing to garner dancing partner and, as Rehearsal born in Dallas, Texas, trained with choreographer in 1954 until his And while his work was largely flood of masterful creativity. The international acclaim, the Paul Taylor Director, was his surrogate in the Kathy Chamberlain and Gilles death in 2018. Having performed iconoclastic, he also made some exuberant Esplanade (1975), Dance Company performs more than studio and on tour for more than 40 Tanguay, and graduated Magna with Martha Graham’s company for of the most purely romantic, one of several Taylor dances set half of each touring season in cities years. Cum Laude with a B.F.A in Dance several years, Mr. Taylor uniquely most astonishingly athletic, and to music by Bach, was dubbed throughout the United States. In Performance and Computer bridged the legendary founders of downright funniest dances ever put an instant classic, and has come celebration of the Company’s 50th ANDY LEBEAU (Rehearsal Director) Science from Southern Methodist modern dance–Isadora Duncan, on stage. to be regarded as among the Anniversary and 50 years of creativity, was raised in Portsmouth, New University in Dallas. While a Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Doris greatest dances ever made. In the Taylor Foundation presented Hampshire. He graduated from the scholarship student there, and at Humphrey, and Ms. Graham–and Paul Taylor was born on July 29, Cloven Kingdom (1976), Mr. Taylor Mr. Taylor’s works in all 50 states Boston Conservatory of Music with the American Dance Festival as a the dance makers of the 21st 1930–exactly nine months after the examined the primitive nature that between March 2004 and November a B.F.A. in Dance in 1993. He then Tom Adams Scholar, she worked Century with whom he later stock market crash that led into the lurks just below man’s veneer of 2005. That tour underscored the moved to New York City to be one with choreographers Robert Battle, worked. Through his initiative at Great Depression–and grew up in sophistication and gentility. With Taylor Company’s historic role as one of the original members of Taylor Judith Jamison, Donald McKayle, Lincoln Center begun in 2015–Paul and around Washington, D.C. He Arden Court (1981), he depicted of the early touring companies of 2. Two years later he was invited and Shen Wei, among others. Taylor American Modern Dance–he attended Syracuse University on a relationships both platonic and American modern dance. to join Paul Taylor Dance Company. She also attended Paul Taylor and presented great modern works of swimming scholarship in the late romantic. He looked at intimacy After retiring from the stage in Martha Graham dance intensives in the past and outstanding works 1940s until he discovered dance among men at war in Sunset (1983); Beginning with its first television 2005, Andy served as Director of New York City. She made her debut by today’s leading choreographers through books at the University pictured Armageddon in Last Look appearance for the “Dance in The Taylor School, then Director of with the Paul Taylor Dance Company alongside his own vast repertoire. library, and then transferred to (1985); and peered unflinchingly at America” series in 1978, the Paul Taylor 2, Company Manager, and at the American Dance Festival in He also commissioned the next The Juilliard School. In 1954, he religious hypocrisy and marital rape Taylor Dance Company has appeared Rehearsal Assistant to Mr. Taylor. He 2003. In 2007 she was featured in generation of dance makers to assembled a small company of in Speaking In Tongues (1988). In on PBS in ten different programs, works closely with Mr. Novak and Dance Magazine as a performer “On work with his renowned Company, dancers and began to choreograph. Company B (1991) he used popular including the 1992 Emmy Award- Ms. Bettie de Jong. the Rise.” She was featured on the thereby helping to ensure the A commanding performer despite songs of the 1940s to juxtapose the winning Speaking in Tongues and The cover of that magazine’s December future of the art form. his late start in dance, he joined the high spirits of a nation emerging Wrecker’s Ball—including Company ROBERT KLEINENDORST (Dancer) 2012 issue, and in February 2018 Martha Graham Dance Company in from the Depression with the B, Funny Papers, and A Field of is originally from Roseville, she penned an article for it entitled Mr. Taylor continued to win public 1955 for the first of seven seasons sacrifices Americans made during Grass—which was nominated for Minnesota. He graduated from “What Paul Taylor has Taught Me.” and critical acclaim for the vibrancy, as a soloist while continuing to World War II. In Eventide (1997) an Emmy Award in 1997. In 1999 Luther College in 1995 with a B.A. She restaged Mr. Taylor’s The Word relevance, and power of his dances choreograph on his own troupe. In he portrayed the budding and the PBS American Masters series in Voice and Dance. After moving to at The College of William and Mary into his eighties, offering cogent 1959, he was invited to be a guest fading of a romance. In The Word aired Dancemaker, the Academy New York, he danced with the Gail in 2013 and continues teaching observations on life’s complexities artist with New York City Ballet, (1998), he railed against religious Award nominated documentary Gilbert Dance Ensemble, and Cortez master classes at universities, while tackling some of society’s where Balanchine created the zealotry and blind conformity to about Mr. Taylor and his Company. & Co. He also performed with Anna schools, and festivals around the thorniest issues. While he often Episodes solo for him. authority. In the first decade of the In 2013, PBS aired Paul Taylor Sokolow’s Players Projects at The world. She has choreographed propelled his dancers through new millennium he poked fun at Dance Company in Paris, featuring Kennedy Center in Washington, dances to benefit human rights space for the sheer beauty of it, Mr. Taylor first gained notoriety feminism in Dream Girls (2002); Brandenburgs and Beloved Renegade. D.C. After studying at The Taylor organizations and for independent he more frequently used them as a dance maker in 1957 with condemned American imperialism The 2014 documentary Paul Taylor School, he joined Taylor 2 in 1998. films. Her most recent ballet,Traces , to comment on such profound Seven New Dances; its study in in Banquet of Vultures (2005); and Creative Domain won critical and Kleinendorst joined Paul Taylor premiered in New York City for issues as war, piety, spirituality, non-movement famously earned stared death square in the face in public acclaim for its revelation on Dance Company in Fall 2000. an arts fundraiser benefiting the sexuality, morality, and mortality. it a blank newspaper review, and the Walt Whitman-inspired Beloved Mr. Taylor’s creative process, as Children of Bellevue Hospital. She If, as George Balanchine said, there Graham subsequently dubbed him Renegade (2008). Brief Encounters it followed the famously private MICHELLE FLEET (Dancer) is a appeared in Doug Elkins’s film, A are no mothers-in-law in ballet, the “naughty boy” of dance. In (2009) examined the inability of choreographer and his Company native of the Bronx, New York, and Hundred Indecisions. Her body of there certainly are dysfunctional 1962, with his first major success many people in contemporary through the entire process of creating a graduate of Talent Unlimited High work for the Taylor Company earned families, disillusioned idealists, –the sunny Aureole–he set his society to form meaningful and a new work from initial concept to School. She began her formal dance her a nomination for a 2016 Dance imperfect religious leaders, angels, trailblazing modern movement lasting relationships. In this decade opening night. training at Five Points Cultural Arts and Performance Bessie Award . and insects in Mr. Taylor’s dances. not to contemporary music, but he turned a frightening short story Center under the direction of Lee His repertoire of 147 works covers to baroque works composed two into a searing drama in To Make BETTIE DE JONG (Rehearsal Director) Aca Thompson. She also studied at SEAN MAHONEY (Dancer) was a breathtaking range of topics, centuries earlier, and then went Crops Grow and compared the was born in Sumatra, Indonesia, and Ballet Hispánico School of Dance, born and raised in Bensalem, but recurring themes include the to the opposite extreme a year mating rituals of the insect world in 1946 moved to Holland, where she where she was a member of the Pennsylvania, and began his life natural world and man’s place later with a view of purgatory in to that of humans in the comedic continued her early training in dance junior company. She earned her in dance at age 12 by attending within it; love and sexuality in all Scudorama, using a commissioned, Gossamer Gallants. Mr. Taylor’s and mime. Her first professional B.F.A. in Dance from Purchase Princeton Ballet School on gender combinations; and iconic modern score. He inflamed final work,Concertiana , made when engagement was with the College in 1999 and received her scholarship; that year he also moments in American history. His the establishment in 1965 by he was 87, premiered at Lincoln Netherlands Pantomime Company. M.B.A. in Business Management started training with Fred Knecht. poignant looks at soldiers, those lampooning some of America’s Center in 2018. After coming to New York City to in 2006. Ms. Fleet has performed In 1991 he began as an apprentice who send them into battle, and most treasured icons in From Sea study at the Martha Graham School, in works by Bill T. Jones, Merce at American Repertory Ballet (ARB) those they leave behind prompted To Shining Sea, and created more Hailed for uncommon musicality she performed with the Graham Cunningham, Kevin Wynn, Corbin and became a featured dancer with The New York Times to hail him as Company, the Pearl Lang Company, Dances, and Gian Carlo Menotti. the company, which he rejoined and catholic taste, Mr. Taylor set Mr. Taylor received nearly every Raised in Rolling Meadows, IL, Mr. movement to music so memorably important honor given to artists in Novak began studying dance at age that for many people it is impossible the United States. In 1992 he was 10. At 12, he developed a severe to hear certain orchestral works and a recipient of the Kennedy Center speech impediment that required popular songs and not think of his Honors and received an Emmy Award intensive therapy. Dance became a dances. He set works to an eclectic for Speaking in Tongues, produced liberating and vital force for self- mix that includes Medieval masses, by WNET/New York the previous expression. “I wanted nothing more Renaissance dances, baroque year. He was awarded the National than to achieve in dancing that concertos, classical warhorses, and Medal of Arts by President Clinton in sense of effortlessness and grace scores by Debussy, Cage, Feldman, 1993. In 1995 he received the Algur that were so difficult for me to find Ligeti and Pärt; Ragtime, Tango, Tin H. Meadows Award for Excellence while speaking aloud,” he said. Pan Alley, and Barbershop Quartets; in the Arts and was named one of “With dancing, there were no limits Harry Nilsson, The Mamas and The 50 prominent Americans honored to what I could express.” In 2001, Papas, and Burl Ives; telephone in recognition of their outstanding Mr. Novak was offered a Presidential time announcements, loon calls achievement by the Library of Scholarship to attend The University and laughter. Mr. Taylor influenced Congress’s Office of Scholarly of the Arts in Philadelphia to pursue dozens of men and women who Programs. He is the recipient of training in jazz and ballet. The have gone on to choreograph– three Guggenheim Fellowships, and following year, he undertook an many on their own troupes–while honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees apprenticeship at the Pennsylvania others have gone on to become from California Institute of the Arts, Academy of Ballet Society, where he respected teachers at colleges Connecticut College, Duke University, remained until 2004. and universities. And he worked The Juilliard School, Skidmore College, closely with such outstanding artists the State University of New York at Mr. Novak was admitted to as James F. Ingalls, Jasper Johns, Purchase, Syracuse University, and Columbia University’s School of Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Adelphi University. Awards for lifetime General Studies where he was Ivey Long, Santo Loquasto, Gene achievement include a MacArthur awarded scholarships for academic Moore, Tharon Musser, Robert Foundation Fellowship–often called excellence. He became a member of Rauschenberg, John Rawlings, the “genius award”–and the Samuel the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Thomas Skelton, and Jennifer H. Scripps American Dance Festival the University’s critically acclaimed Tipton. Mr. Taylor’s dances are Award. Other awards include the New resident company, and was named performed by the Paul Taylor Dance York State Governor’s Arts Award and Artistic Associate responsible for Company, the six-member Taylor 2 the New York City Mayor’s Award of advising on the curation of resident Dance Company (begun in 1993), Honor for Art and Culture. In 1989 Mr. choreographers and directing the and companies throughout the Taylor was elected one of ten honorary group’s branding and promotion. world including The Royal Danish members of the American Academy At Columbia, Mr. Novak became Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and Institute of Arts and Letters. immersed in the study of dance American Ballet Theatre, San Having been elected to knighthood by history, which ignited his passionate Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, the French government as Chevalier devotion to modern dance. He and Alvin Ailey American Dance de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in developed a keen interest in the Theater. 1969 and elevated to Officier in 1984 work of François Delsarte, the and Commandeur in 1990, Mr. Taylor 19th Century French movement As the subject of the documentary was awarded France’s highest honor, theorist who codified the system films Dancemaker and Creative the Légion d’Honneur, in 2000 for linking emotion and gesture that Domain, and author of the exceptional contributions to French would inspire the first generation autobiography Private Domain culture. of American modern dancers. A and Wall Street Journal essay highlight of his studies at Columbia Why I Make Dances, Mr. Taylor Mr. Taylor died in Manhattan was performing Mr. Taylor’s solo in shed light on the mysteries of the on August 29, 2018, leaving an Aureole, which led him to embrace creative process as few artists have. extraordinary legacy of creativity and the Taylor repertoire. In 2008, Mr. Dancemaker, which received an vision not only to American modern Novak graduated magna cum laude Oscar nomination in 1999, was dance but to the performing arts the from Columbia, and was elected to hailed by Time as “perhaps the best world over. Phi Beta Kappa. dance documentary ever,” while Private Domain, originally published MICHAEL NOVAK (Artistic Director) In a 2009 program celebrating by Alfred A. Knopf, was nominated became only the second Artistic Diaghilev at Columbia’s Miller by the National Book Critics Circle Director in the history of the Paul Theatre, Mr. Novak embodied Vaslav as the most distinguished biography Taylor Dance Foundation in September Nijinsky’s role in L’Après-midi d’un of 1987. A collection of Mr. Taylor’s 2018, upon the death of Founding faune with an authenticity that essays, Facts and Fancies, was Artistic Director Paul Taylor the brought him to the attention of published by Delphinium in 2013. previous month. Mr. Novak has been dance critics and scholars. He has a member of the Paul Taylor Dance since performed works by Bill T. Company since 2010. Jones and Stephen Petronio, and danced with Gibney Dance and the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. itself would suvive well into the future, include some magnificent Taylor He has also studied at Springboard Mr. Taylor established Paul Taylor works that require historic Danse Montréal under Alexandra American Modern Dance. recordings, while some other Wells, and Coleman Lemieux & choreographers use recorded Compagnie. In addition to presenting the Paul pastiches.) Donald York, Mr. Taylor’s Taylor Dance Company in dances from longtime music collaborator and Mr. Novak’s Paul Taylor Dance Mr. Taylor’s collection of nearly 150 composer, has returned to the Company debut in the 2010-11 works, PTAMD presents great modern Company as Music Director, and season earned him a nomination for dance works by choreographers of divides conducting responsibilities the Clive Barnes Foundation Dance the past, performed by contemporary with distinguished guest artists. Award. Since joining the company, masters of those styles. Since these he has danced 56 roles in 50 Taylor dances have seldom if ever been Paul Taylor American Modern Dance dances, 13 of which were made on performed at Lincoln Center, vast new has done more than breathe new life him. He has also had roles created audiences have a rare opportunity into a 65-year-old Company. It has on him by the five Taylor Company to experience the formative works of helped reinvigorate an art form. Commission choreographers to modern dance. PTAMD also brings to date. In announcing Mr. Novak’s Lincoln Center outstanding works by PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY appointment as Artistic Director leading choreographers of our own Dance-maker Paul Taylor first Designate in March 2018, Mr. Taylor time. Thus far, PTAMD has presented presented his choreography with said, “Michael has mastered our Sara Mearns in Dances of Isadora; five other dancers in Manhattan repertory and steeped himself in the Limón Dance Company in Doris on May 30, 1954. That modest dance history. He understands the Humphrey’s Passacaglia from 1938; performance marked the beginning need to nurture the past, present, the Paul Taylor Dance Company in of 64 years of unrivaled creativity, and future of modern dance. I look Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels and in the decades that followed, forward to working with him and (1948); Lyon Opera Ballet in Merce Mr. Taylor became a cultural icon preparing him to assume artistic Cunningham’s Summerspace (1958); and one of American history’s most leadership of my Company.” Dayton Contemporary Dance Company celebrated artists, hailed as part of in Donald McKayle’s Rainbow ’Round the pantheon that created American “I am determined to further Paul My Shoulder (1959); Trisha Brown modern dance. Taylor’s vision,” Mr. Novak said Dance Company in Ms. Brown’s Set upon assuming the role of Artistic and Reset (1983); and Shen Wei Dance The Paul Taylor Dance Company Director, “and to bring his gems Arts in Shen Wei’s Rite of Spring has traveled the globe many times to every part of the globe… to (2004). over, bringing Mr. Taylor’s ever- honor past dance makers and burgeoning repertoire to theaters encourage future artists… and to PTAMD also provides choreographers and venues of every size and make sure modern dance remains a with the invaluable opportunity to description in cultural capitals, transformative force for good in our make dances on the Paul Taylor Dance on college campuses and in rural lives long into the future.” Company in a nurturing atmosphere communities–and often to places through the Taylor Company modern dance had never been PAUL TAYLOR AMERICAN MODERN Commissions program. Those dances seen before. The Taylor Company DANCE are then performed at Lincoln Center, has performed in more than 500 As a pioneering dance maker, Paul and some go on national tour with cities in 64 countries, representing Taylor blazed new trails throughout the Company. Commission recipients the United States at arts festivals his 64-year career. Remarkably, he thus far include Larry Keigwin, who in more than 40 countries and was in his 80s when he made two created Rush Hour; Doug Elkins touring extensively under the aegis decisions that changed the future (The Weight of Smoke); Lila York of the U.S. Department of State. of his Company and the art form he (Continuum); Bryan Arias (The Beauty In 1997, the Company toured helped create. in Gray); and Doug Varone (Half Life). throughout India in celebration Kyle Abraham has received a Taylor of that nation’s 50th Anniversary. The first of these occurred in 2012 Company Commission for 2018-19, Its 1999 engagement in Chile was when Mr. Taylor moved the Paul and Margie Gillis and Pam Tanowitz named the Best International Dance Taylor Dance Company’s annual will be the season’s Guest Resident Event of 1999 by the country’s Art New York City season to Lincoln Choreographers. Critics’ Circle. In the summer of Center for the Performing Arts, 2001, the Company toured in the one of the world’s leading cultural Since the marriage of live music People’s Republic of China and venues. The Taylor Company and dance creates a truly once-in-a- performed in six cities, four of which thereby became the first modern lifetime experience, another major had never seen American modern dance troupe to call Lincoln aspect of PTAMD at Lincoln Center dance before. In the spring of 2003 Center home, and attracted larger calls for music to be performed live the Company mounted an award- audiences than ever before. In by Orchestra of St. Luke’s and guest winning four-week, seven-city 2015, to ensure that both the Taylor artists whenever so intended by the tour of the United Kingdom. The legacy and the art of modern dance choreographer. (Exceptions to this Company’s performances in China COMPANY PAUL TAYLOR (Founding Artistic “among the great war poets” – controversy in 1970 by putting in 2016 marked its fifth tour there, John Butler, Lucas Hoving, and Dances, and Gian Carlo Menotti. She Director) was one of the most high praise indeed for an artist in incest and spousal abuse center with plans to return in November was seen on CBS-TV with Rudolf joined Taylor 2 in Summer 1999 and accomplished artists this nation has a wordless medium. While some stage in Big Bertha. 2018. The company regularly tours Nureyev in a duet choreographed made her debut with the Paul Taylor ever produced. He helped shape of his dances have been termed throughout North America, South by Paul Taylor. de Jong joined the Dance Company in September 2002. and define America’s homegrown “dark” and others “light,” the After retiring as a performer in America, Asia, and Europe. Taylor Company in 1962. Noted for art of modern dance from the majority of his works are dualistic, 1974, Mr. Taylor turned exclusively her strong stage presence and long PARISA KHOBDEH (Dancer) was earliest days of his career as a mixing elements of both extremes. to choreography, resulting in a While continuing to garner line, she was Mr. Taylor’s favorite born in Dallas, Texas, trained with choreographer in 1954 until his And while his work was largely flood of masterful creativity. The international acclaim, the Paul Taylor dancing partner and, as Rehearsal Kathy Chamberlain and Gilles death in 2018. Having performed iconoclastic, he also made some exuberant Esplanade (1975), Dance Company performs more than Director, was his surrogate in the Tanguay, and graduated Magna with Martha Graham’s company for of the most purely romantic, one of several Taylor dances set half of each touring season in cities studio and on tour for more than 40 Cum Laude with a B.F.A in Dance several years, Mr. Taylor uniquely most astonishingly athletic, and to music by Bach, was dubbed throughout the United States. In years. Performance and Computer bridged the legendary founders of downright funniest dances ever put an instant classic, and has come celebration of the Company’s 50th Science from Southern Methodist modern dance–Isadora Duncan, on stage. to be regarded as among the Anniversary and 50 years of creativity, ANDY LEBEAU (Rehearsal Director) University in Dallas. While a Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Doris greatest dances ever made. In the Taylor Foundation presented was raised in Portsmouth, New scholarship student there, and at Humphrey, and Ms. Graham–and Paul Taylor was born on July 29, Cloven Kingdom (1976), Mr. Taylor Mr. Taylor’s works in all 50 states Hampshire. He graduated from the the American Dance Festival as a the dance makers of the 21st 1930–exactly nine months after the examined the primitive nature that between March 2004 and November Boston Conservatory of Music with Tom Adams Scholar, she worked Century with whom he later stock market crash that led into the lurks just below man’s veneer of 2005. That tour underscored the a B.F.A. in Dance in 1993. He then with choreographers Robert Battle, worked. Through his initiative at Great Depression–and grew up in sophistication and gentility. With Taylor Company’s historic role as one moved to New York City to be one Judith Jamison, Donald McKayle, Lincoln Center begun in 2015–Paul and around Washington, D.C. He Arden Court (1981), he depicted of the early touring companies of of the original members of Taylor and Shen Wei, among others. Taylor American Modern Dance–he attended Syracuse University on a relationships both platonic and American modern dance. 2. Two years later he was invited She also attended Paul Taylor and presented great modern works of swimming scholarship in the late romantic. He looked at intimacy to join Paul Taylor Dance Company. Martha Graham dance intensives in the past and outstanding works 1940s until he discovered dance among men at war in Sunset (1983); Beginning with its first television After retiring from the stage in New York City. She made her debut by today’s leading choreographers through books at the University pictured Armageddon in Last Look appearance for the “Dance in 2005, Andy served as Director of with the Paul Taylor Dance Company alongside his own vast repertoire. library, and then transferred to (1985); and peered unflinchingly at America” series in 1978, the Paul The Taylor School, then Director of at the American Dance Festival in He also commissioned the next The Juilliard School. In 1954, he religious hypocrisy and marital rape Taylor Dance Company has appeared Taylor 2, Company Manager, and 2003. In 2007 she was featured in generation of dance makers to assembled a small company of in Speaking In Tongues (1988). In on PBS in ten different programs, Rehearsal Assistant to Mr. Taylor. He Dance Magazine as a performer “On work with his renowned Company, dancers and began to choreograph. Company B (1991) he used popular including the 1992 Emmy Award- works closely with Mr. Novak and the Rise.” She was featured on the thereby helping to ensure the A commanding performer despite songs of the 1940s to juxtapose the winning Speaking in Tongues and The Ms. Bettie de Jong. cover of that magazine’s December future of the art form. his late start in dance, he joined the high spirits of a nation emerging Wrecker’s Ball—including Company 2012 issue, and in February 2018 Martha Graham Dance Company in from the Depression with the B, Funny Papers, and A Field of ROBERT KLEINENDORST (Dancer) she penned an article for it entitled Mr. Taylor continued to win public 1955 for the first of seven seasons sacrifices Americans made during Grass—which was nominated for is originally from Roseville, “What Paul Taylor has Taught Me.” and critical acclaim for the vibrancy, as a soloist while continuing to World War II. In Eventide (1997) an Emmy Award in 1997. In 1999 Minnesota. He graduated from She restaged Mr. Taylor’s The Word relevance, and power of his dances choreograph on his own troupe. In he portrayed the budding and the PBS American Masters series Luther College in 1995 with a B.A. at The College of William and Mary into his eighties, offering cogent 1959, he was invited to be a guest fading of a romance. In The Word aired Dancemaker, the Academy in Voice and Dance. After moving to in 2013 and continues teaching observations on life’s complexities artist with New York City Ballet, (1998), he railed against religious Award nominated documentary New York, he danced with the Gail master classes at universities, while tackling some of society’s where Balanchine created the zealotry and blind conformity to about Mr. Taylor and his Company. Gilbert Dance Ensemble, and Cortez schools, and festivals around the thorniest issues. While he often Episodes solo for him. authority. In the first decade of the In 2013, PBS aired Paul Taylor & Co. He also performed with Anna world. She has choreographed propelled his dancers through new millennium he poked fun at Dance Company in Paris, featuring Sokolow’s Players Projects at The dances to benefit human rights space for the sheer beauty of it, Mr. Taylor first gained notoriety feminism in Dream Girls (2002); Brandenburgs and Beloved Renegade. Kennedy Center in Washington, organizations and for independent he more frequently used them as a dance maker in 1957 with condemned American imperialism The 2014 documentary Paul Taylor D.C. After studying at The Taylor films. Her most recent ballet,Traces , to comment on such profound Seven New Dances; its study in in Banquet of Vultures (2005); and Creative Domain won critical and School, he joined Taylor 2 in 1998. premiered in New York City for issues as war, piety, spirituality, non-movement famously earned stared death square in the face in public acclaim for its revelation on Kleinendorst joined Paul Taylor an arts fundraiser benefiting the sexuality, morality, and mortality. it a blank newspaper review, and the Walt Whitman-inspired Beloved Mr. Taylor’s creative process, as Dance Company in Fall 2000. Children of Bellevue Hospital. She If, as George Balanchine said, there Graham subsequently dubbed him Renegade (2008). Brief Encounters it followed the famously private appeared in Doug Elkins’s film, A are no mothers-in-law in ballet, the “naughty boy” of dance. In (2009) examined the inability of choreographer and his Company MICHELLE FLEET (Dancer) is a Hundred Indecisions. Her body of there certainly are dysfunctional 1962, with his first major success many people in contemporary through the entire process of creating native of the Bronx, New York, and work for the Taylor Company earned families, disillusioned idealists, –the sunny Aureole–he set his society to form meaningful and a new work from initial concept to a graduate of Talent Unlimited High her a nomination for a 2016 Dance imperfect religious leaders, angels, trailblazing modern movement lasting relationships. In this decade opening night. School. She began her formal dance and Performance Bessie Award . and insects in Mr. Taylor’s dances. not to contemporary music, but he turned a frightening short story training at Five Points Cultural Arts His repertoire of 147 works covers to baroque works composed two into a searing drama in To Make BETTIE DE JONG (Rehearsal Director) Center under the direction of Lee SEAN MAHONEY (Dancer) was a breathtaking range of topics, centuries earlier, and then went Crops Grow and compared the was born in Sumatra, Indonesia, and Aca Thompson. She also studied at born and raised in Bensalem, but recurring themes include the to the opposite extreme a year mating rituals of the insect world in 1946 moved to Holland, where she Ballet Hispánico School of Dance, Pennsylvania, and began his life natural world and man’s place later with a view of purgatory in to that of humans in the comedic continued her early training in dance where she was a member of the in dance at age 12 by attending within it; love and sexuality in all Scudorama, using a commissioned, Gossamer Gallants. Mr. Taylor’s and mime. Her first professional junior company. She earned her Princeton Ballet School on gender combinations; and iconic modern score. He inflamed final work,Concertiana , made when engagement was with the B.F.A. in Dance from Purchase scholarship; that year he also moments in American history. His the establishment in 1965 by he was 87, premiered at Lincoln Netherlands Pantomime Company. College in 1999 and received her started training with Fred Knecht. poignant looks at soldiers, those lampooning some of America’s Center in 2018. After coming to New York City to M.B.A. in Business Management In 1991 he began as an apprentice who send them into battle, and most treasured icons in From Sea study at the Martha Graham School, in 2006. Ms. Fleet has performed at American Repertory Ballet (ARB) those they leave behind prompted To Shining Sea, and created more Hailed for uncommon musicality she performed with the Graham in works by Bill T. Jones, Merce and became a featured dancer with The New York Times to hail him as Company, the Pearl Lang Company, Cunningham, Kevin Wynn, Corbin the company, which he rejoined PROGRAM in 2000. Mahoney was chosen as studying on full scholarship at The native of New Orleans. He earned a one of the first members of Taylor Taylor School. In 2018 she danced B.F.A. in Dance Performance and a Promethean Fire (2002) 2 in 1993. He has danced for David in the feature film The Chaperone Bachelor of Business Administration Fire “that can thy light relume” Parsons, Alex Tressor, and Geoffrey choreographed by John Carrafa. with an International Focus from Doig-Marx, and performed in Radio Walker joined Taylor 2 in September Southern Methodist University. -William Shakespeare City’s Christmas Spectacular. As a 2003 and became a member of the He has been a member of the frequent guest teacher, Mahoney Paul Taylor Dance Company in May Parsons Dance Company, where has taught master classes at such 2008. he performed the signature solo CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor institutions as Towson University, Caught, and the Martha Graham Princeton Ballet School, Santiago MICHAEL APUZZO (Dancer) grew and Lar Lubovitch companies. As MUSIC Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Leopold Stokowski; “Toccata & Ballet, and Lafayette High School up in North Haven, Connecticut. He co-founder of Battleworks, he Fugue in D minor”, “Prelude in E-flat minor”, and “Chorale Prelude for the Performing Arts. He rejoined studied Economics and Theater at performed, taught master classes, BWV 680” Taylor 2 in 2002, and made his Yale University, graduating Magna and re-staged Robert Battle’s works debut with the Paul Taylor Dance Cum Laude in 2005. Growing up in across the country. He has been in COSTUME DESIGN Santo Loquasto Company in Spring 2004. musical theater, he began his formal regional productions of Spamalot, dance training in high school, Chicago, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, LIGHTING DESIGN Jennifer Tipton ERAN BUGGE (Dancer) is from then danced and choreographed Crazy for You, The Music Man, DANCERS Oviedo, Florida where she began in undergraduate companies. White Christmas, Seven Brides for Michael Novak her dance training at the Orlando After being dance captain for an Seven Brothers, and 42nd Street. Eran Bugge Ballet School, and went on to study original production of Miss Julie He joined the Paul Taylor Dance Robert Kleinendorst at The Hartt School at the University choreographed by Peter Pucci, Company temporarily in Spring Jamie Rae Walker of Hartford under the direction of Apuzzo debuted professionally 2011 and rejoined in Summer 2012. Michael Apuzzo Peggy Lyman, graduating Summa at the Yale Repertory Theater. He Heather McGinley Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Ballet has since performed in numerous CHRISTINA LYNCH MARKHAM George Smallwood Pedagogy in 2005. She attended musicals at equity theaters across (Dancer) grew up in Westbury, New Christina Lynch Markham The Taylor School and the 2004 and the country and in the National Tour York and began dancing with Lori Madelyn Ho 2005 Taylor Summer Intensives. of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Shaw, and continued at Holy Trinity Kristin Draucker Bugge has performed in works by Movin’ Out. He is a second-degree High School under the direction of Lee Duveneck Amy Marshall, Katie Stevinson- black belt in Tae Kwon Do, author Catherine Murphy. She attended Alex Clayton Nollet, and Jean Grand-Maître. of Flying Through Yellow, certified Hofstra University on scholarship Devon Louis She was also a member of Full personal trainer, and co-producer and performed works by Cathy John Harnage Force Dance Theatre and the Hartt of the Hamptons charity event, McCann, Karla Wolfangle, Rachel Maria Ambrose Alumni Award. In 2018, she danced Dancers For Good. He joined Paul List, Robin Becker, and Lance in the feature film The Chaperone Taylor Dance Company in Fall 2008. Westergard. During college, she also Commissioned by the American Dance Festival through choreographed by John Carrafa. trained at The Taylor School, and the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and Samuel H. Scripps. She joined the Paul Taylor Dance HEATHER MCGINLEY (Dancer) grew attended the Company’s Summer Original production also made possible with support from Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown. Company in Fall 2005. up in St. Louis, Missouri. Through Intensive Program. After graduating Creation made possible by contributions to the Paul Taylor New Works Fund. her early training with Lisbeth Summa Cum Laude in 2004, she JAMIE RAE WALKER (Dancer) began Brown, she attained a diploma in danced with the Amy Marshall dancing at age three in her home the Cecchetti method of classical Dance Company, Stacie Nelson, and town of Levittown, Pennsylvania. ballet. She graduated from Butler The Dance Theater Company. She As a young dancer, she performed University with a B.F.A. in Dance joined Taylor 2 in Summer 2008, with American Repertory Ballet Performance in 2005. She was and made her debut with the Paul while extensively studying ballet a member of Graham II for two Taylor Dance Company in Summer and Graham techniques. In 1991 seasons and went on to perform 2013. she continued her training at with the Martha Graham Dance Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Company from 2008 to 2011. With MADELYN HO, M.D. (Dancer) is and in 1992 was awarded a full the Graham Company, she toured from Sugar Land, Texas where she scholarship by Violette Verdy at Italy in the original cast of Antonio began dancing at Kinard Dance Northeast Regional Dance Festival. Calenda’s Looking for Picasso, a School and later trained with Upon graduating high school, dance and theater piece featuring BalletForte under the artistic Jacob’s Pillow is committed to providing an environment that cultivates the celebration of the art of dance Walker was invited by Edward restaged classic Graham ballets. In direction of Michael Banigan. She and its positive impact on community. Villella to join Miami City Ballet 2018 she danced in the feature film graduated from Harvard College While in our theaters, please refrain from behavior that could disturb other patrons and performers during the performance. We ask that you: silence your cell where she performed principal The Chaperone choreographed by with a B.A. in Chemical and Physical phone; do not photograph or video record performances; keep your ticket with you at all times; observe that food and beverages are not allowed, with the exception of water; and please let a staff member know if you need help. and soloist roles in Balanchine and John Carrafa. She participated in Biology. While there, she was Thank you for observing these House Rules so that everyone can have an enjoyable experience. Taylor dances from 1994 to 2000. the 2010 Intensives at The Taylor awarded the Artist Development If you have any suggestions, comments, or incidents to report, please direct them to In 2001 she joined the original cast School, and joined Paul Taylor Fellowship and attended the Taylor Deputy Director A. J. Pietrantone, at [email protected] of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Dance Company in Spring 2011. School Winter Intensive. She was We are so glad you are here. Enjoy the show! Movin’ Out, while simultaneously a member of Taylor 2 from 2008 studying on full scholarship at The GEORGE SMALLWOOD (Dancer) is a to 2012 and left to attend Harvard PROGRAM MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS Medical School, during which time Commissions” choreographer Lila Classical Theatre of Harlem, EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT Aureole (1962) she was a guest artist for Alison Cook York when she created Continuum in LEVYdance, AThomasProject, and Beatty Dance and performed with Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. JACOB’S PILLOW CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor 2016. He joined the Paul Taylor Dance Urbanity Dance. She joined the Paul Company in Summer 2017. In 2018, she traveled to China Taylor Dance Company in Spring 2015 as an ambassador for Parsons MUSIC George Frideric Handel; excerpts from “Concerti Grossi in C, F” and “Jephtha” JOIN OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS & SUPPORT THE and completed her Doctorate of DEVON LOUIS (Dancer) hails from Dance to teach dance to young MISSION OF JACOB’S PILLOW. COSTUME DESIGN George Tacet Medicine in May 2018. Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of musicians, and then to Japan as Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He part of the Dance International You can help the Pillow present outstanding dance artists LIGHTING DESIGN Thomas Skelton KRISTIN DRAUCKER (Dancer) was attended The Ailey School as a recipient Program. She began studying at from around the world, provide training and support to born in Washington D.C. and grew up of the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship, The Taylor School in 2012, and in York, Pennsylvania. She began her and furthered his dance education at joined the Paul Taylor Dance the talented dancers of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, maintain DANCERS Sean Mahoney our landmark site, and create free community programs Christina Lynch Markham training at the Central Pennsylvania The School at Jacob’s Pillow under the Company in Spring 2019. Robert Kleinendorst Youth Ballet under Marcia Dale direction of Milton Myers. Mr. Louis that engage people of all ages and backgrounds with dance. Michelle Fleet Weary. In 2005 she was awarded has performed works by Alvin Ailey, LISA BORRES (Dancer) is a native Heather McGinley a Fellowship to study Horton and Matthew Rushing, Christopher Huggins, of Staten Island, New York, and a Graham at The Ailey School. Since Nathan Trice, Ronald K. Brown, and graduate of LaGuardia High School 1 Mr. Kleinendorst, Ms. Fleet, Ms. McGinley, Ms. Lynch Markham, moving to New York City she has Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. He has also of Music & Art and Performing 2 Mr. Mahoney danced with Michael Mao Dance, performed as a member of Ballet Arts. At The Hartt School of the EVERY GIFT MATTERS. 3 Ms. Fleet, Mr. Kleinendorst, Ms. McGinley, Ms. Lynch Markham ArmitageGone!Dance, New Chamber Hispanico’s junior company, BHdos; University of Hartford, from JOIN AND CHOOSE THE LEVEL RIGHT FOR YOU! 4 Ms. Lynch Markham and Mr. Mahoney Ballet, and at Bard’s Summerscape The Metropolitan Opera; and Nimbus which she graduated in 2011, 5 Full Cast in Les Huguenots. In 2009 she joined Dance Works. Louis joined the Paul she studied with Stephen Pick Explore the full list of benefits, join as a new Member, renew your the 50th Anniversary International Taylor Dance Company in Summer and Katie Stevenson-Nollet and Original Production made possible by the 1962 American Dance Festival at current membership, or upgrade to a higher level Tour of West Side Story and in 2010 2018. danced in works by Martha Connecticut College. at jacobspillow.org/support/membership. performed in Tino Sehgal’s KISS at Graham and Pascal Rioult. She Preservation made possible by Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, and by contributions the Guggenheim Museum. Draucker JOHN HARNAGE (Dancer) is a native participated in Summer Intensives to the Paul Taylor Repertory Preservation Project with support from the National began creating dances in 2014 and of Miami, Florida, and studied dance at the Joffrey Ballet School, You can also make a donation by phone at 413.243.9919 x122. Endowment for the Arts. has shown her work in New York, at the Miami City Ballet School and Martha Graham Dance Company, Philadelphia, and as part of the New World School of the Arts. He was Alvin Ailey American Dance Sustaining members support the Pillow year-round through easy, LaMAMA Umbria Festival in Spoleto, a Modern Dance Finalist in the 2010 Theatre, and Parsons Dance, and automatic monthly or quarterly gifts. - INTERMISSION - Italy. She joined the Paul Taylor Dance National Foundation for Advancement has taught dance at The Hartt Company in Winter 2017. in the YoungArts competition. In 2014 School. Since 2012, Borres has he graduated from The Juilliard School, been part of the selection process LEE DUVENECK (Dancer) grew up in where he performed works by José for Ballet Tech, Eliot Feld’s tuition- Depending on your level, membership gives you access to: Concertiana (2018) Arlington, Texas, where he trained Limón, Alexander Ekman, Pina Bausch, free school that draws its students Early Ticketing with Anne Oswalt and Gwen Price. from the NYC public school CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor and Lar Lubovitch, among others. Fan level & above In 2010 he earned his B.F.A. in He then began working with Jessica system, whose diversity reflects MUSIC Eric Ewazen Dance Performance from Southern Lang Dance, and joined the company the full American spectrum. She Admission to Cast Parties Methodist University, where he in 2015, performing and teaching has performed with Amy Marshall Contributor level & above COSTUME DESIGN William Ivey Long studied with Taylor alumna Ruth around the world. He also performed Dance Company, Elisa Monte Andrien and jazz dance icon Danny as a principal dancer in Washington Dance, DAMAGEdance, Lydia Pillow Lab showings where you can witness the creative process LIGHTING DESIGN James F. Ingalls Buraczeski. While in New York, he has National Opera’s 2017 production of Johnson Dance, and LEVYdance. Supporter level & above danced for Annmaria Mazzini, Mari Aida at the John F. Kennedy Center for She joined the Paul Taylor Dance DANCERS Sean Mahoney Meade, and Jessica Gaynor. Duveneck the Performing Arts. Harnage joined Company in Spring 2019. Priority Parking Passes Eran Bugge joined Taylor 2 in 2012, and joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Fall Partners’ Circle level & above Michael Apuzzo the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 2018. Michael Novak Summer 2017. Invitations to Member-Exclusive Events Heather McGinley MARIA AMBROSE (Dancer) grew up George Smallwood ALEX CLAYTON (Dancer) grew up in in Meredith, New Hampshire and Discounts in The Pillow Store Christina Lynch Markham Louisville, Kentucky, and received began her dance training at age four Madelyn Ho his B.F.A. in Dance with a Minor in under the direction of Sally Downs. Lee Duveneck Visual Arts from Stephens College in She furthered her training with Edra Alex Clayton 2013. He was a Graham 2 company Toth and performed with the Boston Help make dance creation, presentation, education, and John Harnage member from 2014 to 2015. He also Dance Company. She attended George preservation at Jacob’s Pillow possible. performed with companies including Mason University where she was 10 Hairy Legs, Abarukas Project, awarded the Harriet Mattusch Special Thank you! - INTERMISSION - Curet Performance Project, and Recognition in Dance, and graduated Performa15. He served as Rehearsal Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Assistant for Paul Taylor American Dance Performance in 2011. She has Modern Dance “Taylor Company performed with Elisa Monte Dance, The PILLOWNOTES JACOB’S PILLOW EXTENDS SPECIAL THANKS by Suzanne Carbonneau TO OUR VISIONARY LEADERS The PillowNotes comprises essays commissioned from our Scholars-in-Residence to provide audiences with a broader context for viewing dance. VISIONARY LEADERS form an important foundation of support and demonstrate their passion for and commitment to Jacob’s Pillow through It is said that the body doesn’t lie, but this is wishful thinking. All earthly creatures do it, only some more artfully than others. annual gifts of $10,000 and above. —Paul Taylor, Private Domain Their deep affiliation ensures the success and longevity of the It was Martha Graham, materfamilias of American modern dance, who coined that aphorism about the inevitability of truth Pillow’s annual offerings, including educational initiatives, free public emerging from movement. Considered oracular since its first utterance, over time the idea has only gained in currency as one of programs, The School, the Archives, and more. those things that must be accurate because it sounds so true. But in gently, decisively pronouncing Graham’s idea hokum, choreographer Paul Taylor drew on first-hand experience— $25,000+ observations about the world he had been making since early childhood. To wit: Everyone lies. And, characteristically, in his 1987 autobiography Private Domain, Taylor took delight in the whole business: “I eventually appreciated the artistry of a movement Carole* & Dan Burack Christopher Jones* & Deb McAlister PRESENTS lie,” he wrote, “the guilty tail wagging, the overly steady gaze, the phony humility of drooping shoulders and caved-in chest, the PAUL TAYLOR The Barrington Foundation Wendy McCain decorative-looking little shuffles of pretended pain, the heavy, monumental dances of mock happiness.” Frank & Monique Cordasco Fred Moses* DANCE COMPANY Hon. Stephan P. Driscoll*, in honor and memory Jennie A. Kassanoff & Dan H. Schulman Casting his gimlet eye on these commonplace deceits, Taylor could see extraordinary richness—nothing less than beauty—in such of John Lindquist & Barton Mumaw Mark & Taryn Leavitt artifice. And these are lessons that he took to heart in making his abundantly detailed, carefully reported, and psychologically Ted Shawn Theatre Stephanie & Robert ‡ Gittleman Sylvia T. Pope* astute creations. Taylor discovered that in choreography, it took something like a fish story—not the body in its natural Carolyn Gray & George Peppard Robert & Eileen Rominger understatement, but movement extended, heightened, repeated, varied, structured, framed, costumed, lit—that allowed the Joan & Jim Hunter July 24-28, 2019 audience to experience the “aha” of something that felt awfully close to truth. After early experiments with minimalism that ignored the audience, a dose of expansiveness, a measure of wishfulness seemed in order. “Calculated lies,” Taylor called his dances. FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Taylor $10,000+ In all this talk about lying, the irony is, of course, that there are few choreographers who have told us more truths than Paul Taylor. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Novak Dr. Norman Abramson Ann* & Peter Herbst The fecundity of Taylor’s imagination sent him foraging through a breathtaking range of subject matter and styles in search of Deborah & Charles Adelman Laura* & Nick Ingoglia it. But these truths are never simple. In the nearly 150 dances he made in his lifetime, Taylor produced a repertory of enormous Aliad Fund Nancy K. Kalodner REHEARSAL DIRECTORS Bettie de Jong breadth that asks us to acknowledge the infernal complications of human nature and experience. Taken together, these dances Rick & Nurit Amdur Amy & Richard Kohan Andy LeBeau present a portrait of life in our time that churns with ambiguity and complexity. (Fitting, of course, for a species addicted to lying.) Candace* & Rick Beinecke Lizbeth & George Krupp It’s what we so much appreciated about Taylor as a dancemaker—this is how it is, Taylor told us. Linda & Bob Berzok Jack & Elizabeth Meyer, in honor of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR John Tomlinson Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diane & Deval Patrick Taylor famously said that he was a “reporter,” that he choreographed what he saw. And it is true that for all their deep poetics, David Carlisle & Morene Bodner Hans* & Kate Morris his dances were investigative rather than autobiographical, the choreographer standing outside his creations with penetrating PRINCIPAL LIGHTING DESIGNERS Jennifer Tipton Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation Gov. Deval L. & Diane Patrick and analytic gaze. But while his eye for preternaturally telling detail made the dances seem like dispatches from reality, Taylor James F. Ingalls Neil* & Kathleen Chrisman Claudia Perles was probably more novelist than reporter because what he trusted as much as his eye was his imagination. (“This trust I have Ranny Cooper & David Smith Caren & Barry Roseman never lost,” he wrote.) Taylor said that he was sympathetic to an idea of novelist E.L. Doctorow who declared his historical novel PRINCIPAL SET & Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Hunter K. Runnette* & Mark P. VandenBosch The March—tethered by facts but even more rife with imagined events—“a system of opinions.” In responding to this idea, Taylor COSTUME DESIGNERS Santo Loquasto David DeFilippo & Lisa Shapiro, in memory of Naomi Seligman & Ernie von Simson remarked that perhaps artists are liars or fantasists rather than reporters, that a dance is an accumulation of a person’s notions William Ivey Long Robert Gittleman Mark Sena & Linda Saul-Sena rather than the unvarnished truth. Hermine Drezner Natalie & Howard Shawn Sheila Drill Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay DANCERS Robert Kleinendorst Received wisdom has it that Taylor’s works fall into categories of Light and Dark, and certainly he made some of the most tender Nancy & Michael Feller Roger Tilles Michelle Fleet and exquisite as well as the most black-hearted and disturbing works on the concert stage. How could the creator of Airs (1978), David & Nina Fialkow in honor of Stephen Weiner & Donald Cornuet which suggests nothing less than the possibility of human perfection, have been the same soul peering into the bottomless well of Parisa Khobdeh Deval & Diane Patrick and Mark A. Leavitt Ellen Weissman depravity in Last Look (1985)? But throughout his career, Taylor presented us with such antipodes. Sean Mahoney Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mark & Liz Williams Joan* & Charlie Gross Elaine* & Irving Wolbrom Eran Bugge Still, the classic conflict between light and darkness doesn’t begin to come to terms with the real convolutions of Taylor, who Jamie Rae Walker seemed always aware of the complexity of people, and their infinite capacities for the admixture of exaltation and depravity. Michael Apuzzo Taylor was forever interested in what lurks beneath the surface of those wagging tails, those drooping shoulders. (Those lies!) His * Former Trustees, staff, faculty, interns, Michael Novak The School’s dancers, or arists-in-residence dances find glory in contradiction, with their suggestion that the labyrinth of human nature is not to be underestimated. Heather McGinley ‡ deceased Taylor knew that not all lies are bad. Artifice is, after all, the basis of artmaking. In art, the world is idealized, given back to us in George Smallwood Platonic form with such devices as harmony, symmetry, proportion, order, structure. These are all the tricks of craft—Taylor’s Christina Lynch Markham INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT “calculated lies”—that allow us, in seeing who we could potentially be, insight into who we actually are. Still, Taylor knew the Madelyn Ho difference between artistry and duplicity, and he was not afraid to tell us so. As of May 23, 2019 major support for Jacob’s Pillow has been generously provided by the Kristin Draucker following institutions: The Arison Arts Foundation; Arnhold Foundation; The Barr Foundation; The Barrington Foundation; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield So Taylor was, after all, our Honest Abe—in Lincoln Kirstein’s estimation, “the shrewd democratic citizen” who understood his Lee Duveneck of Massachusetts; The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation; The Feigenbaum Foundation; Gladys audience as “an electorate.” And for over sixty years, we the people voted for him in landslide after landslide. Alex Clayton Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Harkness Devon Louis* Foundation for Dance; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The John S. and James L. Knight When Paul Taylor died last August at the age of 88, his obituary ran across the center of the front page of the New York Times and John Harnage covered two more pages inside the print edition. Taylor’s death was also noted around the world: publications on every continent, Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; MassDevelopment; The Andrew Maria Ambrose W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; save Antarctica, celebrated his indelible transformation of twentieth-century dance. It is no exaggeration to say that Taylor is one National Endowment for the Arts; Onota Foundation; The Prospect Hill Foundation; The Shubert of the most important American artists who ever lived. He left behind a repertory of 147 dances of immense genius that depicted Lisa Borres Foundation; The Robert and Tina Sohn Foundation; The Spingold Foundation; Talented Students human nature in all of its glories and failings. And in so profoundly limning the human condition, Taylor ensured that his life’s work in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Surdna will continue to feel necessary to us—perhaps increasingly so, in a culture where the nature of truth itself is under siege. Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; The Velmans Foundation; Weissman Family Foundation; and Jacob’s Pillow Business Partners. © 2019 Suzanne Carbonneau and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival *Alumnus of The School at Jacob’s Pillow Suzanne Carbonneau’s biography of Paul Taylor is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paul Taylor Dance Company’s engagement at Jacob’s Pillow is supported, in part, by a leadership contribution from Carole and Dan Burack. PROGRAM MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS to 2012 and left to attend Harvard Modern Dance “Taylor Company performed with Elisa Monte EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT Aureole (1962) Medical School, during which time Commissions” choreographer Lila Dance, The Classical Theatre she was a guest artist for Alison Cook of Harlem, LEVYdance, JACOB’S PILLOW CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor York when she created Continuum in Beatty Dance and performed with 2016. He joined the Paul Taylor Dance AThomasProject, and Earl Urbanity Dance. She joined the Paul Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. In MUSIC George Frideric Handel; excerpts from “Concerti Grossi in C, F” and “Jephtha” Company in Summer 2017. JOIN OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS & SUPPORT THE Taylor Dance Company in Spring 2015 2018, she traveled to China as an MISSION OF JACOB’S PILLOW. COSTUME DESIGN George Tacet and completed her Doctorate of DEVON LOUIS (Dancer) hails from ambassador for Parsons Dance to Medicine in May 2018. Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of teach dance to young musicians, You can help the Pillow present outstanding dance artists LIGHTING DESIGN Thomas Skelton Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He and then to Japan as part of the from around the world, provide training and support to KRISTIN DRAUCKER (Dancer) was attended The Ailey School as a recipient Dance International Program. born in Washington D.C. and grew up of the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship, She began studying at The Taylor the talented dancers of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, maintain DANCERS Sean Mahoney our landmark site, and create free community programs Christina Lynch Markham in York, Pennsylvania. She began her and furthered his dance education at School in 2012, and joined the Robert Kleinendorst training at the Central Pennsylvania The School at Jacob’s Pillow under the Paul Taylor Dance Company in that engage people of all ages and backgrounds with dance. Michelle Fleet Youth Ballet under Marcia Dale direction of Milton Myers. Mr. Louis Spring 2019. Heather McGinley Weary. In 2005 she was awarded has performed works by Alvin Ailey, a Fellowship to study Horton and Matthew Rushing, Christopher Huggins, LISA BORRES (Dancer) is a native 1 Mr. Kleinendorst, Ms. Fleet, Ms. McGinley, Ms. Lynch Markham, Graham at The Ailey School. Since Nathan Trice, Ronald K. Brown, and of Staten Island, New York, and a 2 Mr. Mahoney moving to New York City she has Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. He has also graduate of LaGuardia High School EVERY GIFT MATTERS. 3 Ms. Fleet, Mr. Kleinendorst, Ms. McGinley, Ms. Lynch Markham danced with Michael Mao Dance, performed as a member of Ballet of Music & Art and Performing JOIN AND CHOOSE THE LEVEL RIGHT FOR YOU! 4 Ms. Lynch Markham and Mr. Mahoney ArmitageGone!Dance, New Chamber Hispanico’s junior company, BHdos; Arts. At The Hartt School of the 5 Full Cast Ballet, and at Bard’s Summerscape The Metropolitan Opera; and Nimbus University of Hartford, from Explore the full list of benefits, join as a new Member, renew your in Les Huguenots. In 2009 she joined Dance Works. Louis joined the Paul which she graduated in 2011, Original Production made possible by the 1962 American Dance Festival at current membership, or upgrade to a higher level the 50th Anniversary International Taylor Dance Company in Summer she studied with Stephen Pick Connecticut College. at jacobspillow.org/support/membership. Tour of West Side Story and in 2010 2018. and Katie Stevenson-Nollet and Preservation made possible by Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, and by contributions performed in Tino Sehgal’s KISS at danced in works by Martha to the Paul Taylor Repertory Preservation Project with support from the National the Guggenheim Museum. Draucker JOHN HARNAGE (Dancer) is a native Graham and Pascal Rioult. She You can also make a donation by phone at 413.243.9919 x122. Endowment for the Arts. began creating dances in 2014 and of Miami, Florida, and studied dance participated in Summer Intensives has shown her work in New York, at the Miami City Ballet School and at the Joffrey Ballet School, Sustaining members support the Pillow year-round through easy, Philadelphia, and as part of the New World School of the Arts. He was Martha Graham Dance Company, automatic monthly or quarterly gifts. - INTERMISSION - LaMAMA Umbria Festival in Spoleto, a Modern Dance Finalist in the 2010 Alvin Ailey American Dance Italy. She joined the Paul Taylor Dance National Foundation for Advancement Theatre, and Parsons Dance, and Company in Winter 2017. in the YoungArts competition. In 2014 has taught dance at The Hartt he graduated from The Juilliard School, School. Since 2012, Borres has Depending on your level, membership gives you access to: Concertiana (2018) LEE DUVENECK (Dancer) grew up in where he performed works by José been part of the selection process Early Ticketing Arlington, Texas, where he trained for Ballet Tech, Eliot Feld’s tuition- CHOREOGRAPHY Paul Taylor Limón, Alexander Ekman, Pina Bausch, Fan level & above with Anne Oswalt and Gwen Price. and Lar Lubovitch, among others. free school that draws its students MUSIC Eric Ewazen In 2010 he earned his B.F.A. in He then began working with Jessica from the NYC public school Admission to Cast Parties Dance Performance from Southern Lang Dance, and joined the company system, whose diversity reflects Contributor level & above COSTUME DESIGN William Ivey Long Methodist University, where he in 2015, performing and teaching the full American spectrum. She studied with Taylor alumna Ruth around the world. He also performed has performed with Amy Marshall Pillow Lab showings where you can witness the creative process LIGHTING DESIGN James F. Ingalls Andrien and jazz dance icon Danny as a principal dancer in Washington Dance Company, Elisa Monte Supporter level & above Buraczeski. While in New York, he has National Opera’s 2017 production of Dance, DAMAGEdance, Lydia DANCERS Sean Mahoney danced for Annmaria Mazzini, Mari Aida at the John F. Kennedy Center for Johnson Dance, and LEVYdance. Priority Parking Passes Eran Bugge Meade, and Jessica Gaynor. Duveneck the Performing Arts. Harnage joined She joined the Paul Taylor Dance Partners’ Circle level & above Michael Apuzzo joined Taylor 2 in 2012, and joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Fall Company in Spring 2019. Michael Novak the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 2018. Invitations to Member-Exclusive Events Heather McGinley Summer 2017. George Smallwood MARIA AMBROSE (Dancer) grew up Discounts in The Pillow Store Christina Lynch Markham ALEX CLAYTON (Dancer) grew up in in Meredith, New Hampshire and Madelyn Ho Louisville, Kentucky, and received began her dance training at age four Lee Duveneck his B.F.A. in Dance with a Minor in under the direction of Sally Downs. Alex Clayton Visual Arts from Stephens College in She furthered her training with Edra Help make dance creation, presentation, education, and John Harnage 2013. He was a Graham 2 company Toth and performed with the Boston preservation at Jacob’s Pillow possible. member from 2014 to 2015. He also Dance Company. She attended George performed with companies including Mason University where she was Thank you! - INTERMISSION - 10 Hairy Legs, Abarukas Project, awarded the Harriet Mattusch Special Curet Performance Project, and Recognition in Dance, and graduated Performa15. He served as Rehearsal Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Assistant for Paul Taylor American Dance Performance in 2011. She has PILLOWNOTES JACOB’S PILLOW EXTENDS SPECIAL THANKS by Suzanne Carbonneau TO OUR VISIONARY LEADERS The PillowNotes comprises essays commissioned from our Scholars-in-Residence to provide audiences with a broader context for viewing dance. VISIONARY LEADERS form an important foundation of support and demonstrate their passion for and commitment to Jacob’s Pillow through It is said that the body doesn’t lie, but this is wishful thinking. All earthly creatures do it, only some more artfully than others. annual gifts of $10,000 and above. —Paul Taylor, Private Domain Their deep affiliation ensures the success and longevity of the It was Martha Graham, materfamilias of American modern dance, who coined that aphorism about the inevitability of truth Pillow’s annual offerings, including educational initiatives, free public emerging from movement. Considered oracular since its first utterance, over time the idea has only gained in currency as one of programs, The School, the Archives, and more. those things that must be accurate because it sounds so true. But in gently, decisively pronouncing Graham’s idea hokum, choreographer Paul Taylor drew on first-hand experience— $25,000+ observations about the world he had been making since early childhood. To wit: Everyone lies. And, characteristically, in his 1987 autobiography Private Domain, Taylor took delight in the whole business: “I eventually appreciated the artistry of a movement Carole* & Dan Burack Christopher Jones* & Deb McAlister PRESENTS lie,” he wrote, “the guilty tail wagging, the overly steady gaze, the phony humility of drooping shoulders and caved-in chest, the PAUL TAYLOR The Barrington Foundation Wendy McCain decorative-looking little shuffles of pretended pain, the heavy, monumental dances of mock happiness.” Frank & Monique Cordasco Fred Moses* DANCE COMPANY Hon. Stephan P. Driscoll*, in honor and memory Jennie A. Kassanoff & Dan H. Schulman Casting his gimlet eye on these commonplace deceits, Taylor could see extraordinary richness—nothing less than beauty—in such of John Lindquist & Barton Mumaw Mark & Taryn Leavitt artifice. And these are lessons that he took to heart in making his abundantly detailed, carefully reported, and psychologically Ted Shawn Theatre Stephanie & Robert ‡ Gittleman Sylvia T. Pope* astute creations. Taylor discovered that in choreography, it took something like a fish story—not the body in its natural Carolyn Gray & George Peppard Robert & Eileen Rominger understatement, but movement extended, heightened, repeated, varied, structured, framed, costumed, lit—that allowed the Joan & Jim Hunter July 24-28, 2019 audience to experience the “aha” of something that felt awfully close to truth. After early experiments with minimalism that ignored the audience, a dose of expansiveness, a measure of wishfulness seemed in order. “Calculated lies,” Taylor called his dances. FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paul Taylor $10,000+ In all this talk about lying, the irony is, of course, that there are few choreographers who have told us more truths than Paul Taylor. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Novak Dr. Norman Abramson Ann* & Peter Herbst The fecundity of Taylor’s imagination sent him foraging through a breathtaking range of subject matter and styles in search of Deborah & Charles Adelman Laura* & Nick Ingoglia it. But these truths are never simple. In the nearly 150 dances he made in his lifetime, Taylor produced a repertory of enormous Aliad Fund Nancy K. Kalodner REHEARSAL DIRECTORS Bettie de Jong breadth that asks us to acknowledge the infernal complications of human nature and experience. Taken together, these dances Rick & Nurit Amdur Amy & Richard Kohan Andy LeBeau present a portrait of life in our time that churns with ambiguity and complexity. (Fitting, of course, for a species addicted to lying.) Candace* & Rick Beinecke Lizbeth & George Krupp It’s what we so much appreciated about Taylor as a dancemaker—this is how it is, Taylor told us. Linda & Bob Berzok Jack & Elizabeth Meyer, in honor of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR John Tomlinson Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diane & Deval Patrick Taylor famously said that he was a “reporter,” that he choreographed what he saw. And it is true that for all their deep poetics, David Carlisle & Morene Bodner Hans* & Kate Morris his dances were investigative rather than autobiographical, the choreographer standing outside his creations with penetrating PRINCIPAL LIGHTING DESIGNERS Jennifer Tipton Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation Gov. Deval L. & Diane Patrick and analytic gaze. But while his eye for preternaturally telling detail made the dances seem like dispatches from reality, Taylor James F. Ingalls Neil* & Kathleen Chrisman Claudia Perles was probably more novelist than reporter because what he trusted as much as his eye was his imagination. (“This trust I have Ranny Cooper & David Smith Caren & Barry Roseman never lost,” he wrote.) Taylor said that he was sympathetic to an idea of novelist E.L. Doctorow who declared his historical novel PRINCIPAL SET & Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Hunter K. Runnette* & Mark P. VandenBosch The March—tethered by facts but even more rife with imagined events—“a system of opinions.” In responding to this idea, Taylor COSTUME DESIGNERS Santo Loquasto David DeFilippo & Lisa Shapiro, in memory of Naomi Seligman & Ernie von Simson remarked that perhaps artists are liars or fantasists rather than reporters, that a dance is an accumulation of a person’s notions William Ivey Long Robert Gittleman Mark Sena & Linda Saul-Sena rather than the unvarnished truth. Hermine Drezner Natalie & Howard Shawn Sheila Drill Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay DANCERS Robert Kleinendorst Received wisdom has it that Taylor’s works fall into categories of Light and Dark, and certainly he made some of the most tender Nancy & Michael Feller Roger Tilles Michelle Fleet and exquisite as well as the most black-hearted and disturbing works on the concert stage. How could the creator of Airs (1978), David & Nina Fialkow in honor of Stephen Weiner & Donald Cornuet which suggests nothing less than the possibility of human perfection, have been the same soul peering into the bottomless well of Parisa Khobdeh Deval & Diane Patrick and Mark A. Leavitt Ellen Weissman depravity in Last Look (1985)? But throughout his career, Taylor presented us with such antipodes. Sean Mahoney Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mark & Liz Williams Joan* & Charlie Gross Elaine* & Irving Wolbrom Eran Bugge Still, the classic conflict between light and darkness doesn’t begin to come to terms with the real convolutions of Taylor, who Jamie Rae Walker seemed always aware of the complexity of people, and their infinite capacities for the admixture of exaltation and depravity. Michael Apuzzo Taylor was forever interested in what lurks beneath the surface of those wagging tails, those drooping shoulders. (Those lies!) His * Former Trustees, staff, faculty, interns, Michael Novak The School’s dancers, or arists-in-residence dances find glory in contradiction, with their suggestion that the labyrinth of human nature is not to be underestimated. Heather McGinley ‡ deceased Taylor knew that not all lies are bad. Artifice is, after all, the basis of artmaking. In art, the world is idealized, given back to us in George Smallwood Platonic form with such devices as harmony, symmetry, proportion, order, structure. These are all the tricks of craft—Taylor’s Christina Lynch Markham INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT “calculated lies”—that allow us, in seeing who we could potentially be, insight into who we actually are. Still, Taylor knew the Madelyn Ho difference between artistry and duplicity, and he was not afraid to tell us so. As of May 23, 2019 major support for Jacob’s Pillow has been generously provided by the Kristin Draucker following institutions: The Arison Arts Foundation; Arnhold Foundation; The Barr Foundation; The Barrington Foundation; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield So Taylor was, after all, our Honest Abe—in Lincoln Kirstein’s estimation, “the shrewd democratic citizen” who understood his Lee Duveneck of Massachusetts; The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation; The Feigenbaum Foundation; Gladys audience as “an electorate.” And for over sixty years, we the people voted for him in landslide after landslide. Alex Clayton Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Harkness Devon Louis* Foundation for Dance; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The John S. and James L. Knight When Paul Taylor died last August at the age of 88, his obituary ran across the center of the front page of the New York Times and John Harnage covered two more pages inside the print edition. Taylor’s death was also noted around the world: publications on every continent, Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; MassDevelopment; The Andrew Maria Ambrose W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; save Antarctica, celebrated his indelible transformation of twentieth-century dance. It is no exaggeration to say that Taylor is one National Endowment for the Arts; Onota Foundation; The Prospect Hill Foundation; The Shubert of the most important American artists who ever lived. He left behind a repertory of 147 dances of immense genius that depicted Lisa Borres Foundation; The Robert and Tina Sohn Foundation; The Spingold Foundation; Talented Students human nature in all of its glories and failings. And in so profoundly limning the human condition, Taylor ensured that his life’s work in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Surdna will continue to feel necessary to us—perhaps increasingly so, in a culture where the nature of truth itself is under siege. Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; The Velmans Foundation; Weissman Family Foundation; and Jacob’s Pillow Business Partners. © 2019 Suzanne Carbonneau and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival *Alumnus of The School at Jacob’s Pillow Suzanne Carbonneau’s biography of Paul Taylor is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paul Taylor Dance Company’s engagement at Jacob’s Pillow is supported, in part, by a leadership contribution from Carole and Dan Burack.