Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) photo by Tom Caravaglia, courtesy Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Artistic Staff
| Artistic Director |
Peter Sparling |
| Scenic Designer |
Katarzyna Mrozewska |
| Costume Designer |
Rebecca Turk |
| Lighting Designer |
Mary Cole |
| Stage Manager |
Andrés Holder |
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The restaging of Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal)
with premieres by faculty Amy Chavasse,
Jessica Fogel, and Sandra Torijano
University Dance Company 
Power Center
February 4 at 7:30 PM
February 5 & 6 at 8 PM
February 7 at 2 PM
Overview
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) by Paul Taylor highlights the University Dance Company’s 2010 concert. This 30th anniversary staging of Taylor’s irreverent and brilliant work is in celebration of the foremost American modern choreographer’s 80th birthday. A delicious double-narrative, the dance tells a Runyonesque detective story juxtaposed against the daily rituals and intrigues of a touring dance company. Sacre is set to Stravinsky’s eminent piano score of the same name, in the 1947 version for four hands to be played live. According to the San Francisco Examiner, “Paul Taylor is without question the greatest living American choreographer. Taylor’s emphasis on emotion within actual movement, the rhythmic vitality of his accents, his all-American youthfulness and optimisim, all have set standards for American dance.” Premiered in 1980, Sacre layers highly stylized movement with a melancholy wit to create what The New York Times declared “some of the most exciting movement in modern choreography… propulsive and original.” Faculty member Amy Chavasse creates Hunger for the Craving for the Longing for the Aching. Using four very different versions of Woody Guthrie’s 1940 seminal folk song, “This Land is Your Land”, Chavasse has collaborated with her cast to create a Busby Berkeley-like pastiche in homage to things that we claim are right and true and ours. Premières by faculty Sandra Torijano and Jessica Fogel will round out the evening.
Additional Events
Stravinsky and the Dance
Friday, Dec 4 10.00-12.00, Studio A, Dance Building
As a prelude to the Department of Dance’s restaging of Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal), a panel of three dance-music presenters will examine Igor Stravinsky’s contribution to 20th-century performance. The first speaker, Professor Stephen Rush, will consider The Radicalism of Stravinsky’s Music. Professor Christian Matjias will then focus on The Evolution of Le Sacre from Enfant to Etude; and in the final presentation, Professor Angela Kane will discuss Paul Taylor’s re-envisioning of Le Sacre as a modern-day American morality tale.
This colloquium has been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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