Ballet BC first performed Company B in February 2006.
The Company B Study Guide is available for download ( PDF - 450Kb).
Andy LeBeau on Paul Taylor - read the whole interview (PDF 3.7 Mb)
Choreography: Paul Taylor
Songs by: The Andrews Sisters, Courtesy of MCA Records:
1. Bei Mir Bist du Schon
2. Pennsylvania Polka
3. Tico-Tico
4. Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!...
5. I Can Dream, Can't I?
6. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)...
7. Rum and Coca-Cola
8. There Will Never Be Another You
9. Bei Mir Bist du Schon
plus
Petite Mort,
by Jiri Kylian
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
and
the weight of absence
by Dominique Dumais
Music: Eric Cadesky
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
February 16 17 18, 2006• 8 pm
February 18, 2006 • 2 pm
(* NEW! Tea Matinee)
Company B, Paul Taylor’s seminal piece of Americana, recalling the turbulent days of the 1940s, is impressive for the vibrancy and charisma of Taylor’s versatile and stunning inventiveness, razor-sharp timing and sometimes frightening wit. As the nation lindys, jitterbugs and polkas to the Andrews Sisters music, a generation of Americans is drawn into the hell of the Second World War.
In his choreography, Taylor creates little worlds which exist in the bubble of time between the curtain’s rise and fall, worlds distinctive not just in their physical rules of how people and things move but in the human societies they create and the strengths and foibles they invite us to experience.
"This program combines the vitality of Paul Taylor's choreography with the pristine beauty of Jiri Kylian's Petite Mort, and the sexual energy of Dominique Dumais' the weight of absence. This is the perfect date-night repertoire for newcomers to dance and promises to be a satisfying experience for all dance-lovers."
John Alleyne
World Premiere:
Houston Ballet, June 1991
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