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...dancing as an entertaining and professional dance style. The group aims to present every kind of tap dancing, which wont be hard: TAPS has 14 talented dancers, most of whom have spent more than eight years tapping seriously. With such impressive background and talent, TAPS dancers are sure to choreograph amazing pieces...
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1995, Lan took up organ-playing at Memorial Church, and served as president of the Society for Physics Students. Lan also learned to tango so she could choreograph Stravinksy's tango from 1940, which she researched for her thesis...
Mark Morris is best known for his musicality. His talent lies in his successful synthesis of music and movement into an organic whole, rather than in his ability to choreograph innovative steps. What emerges in his dances is a continuous, ebullient surge of movement that exists in perfect harmony with the music. Yo Yo Ma's passionate delivery of the music on stage with the dancers along with the visual splendor of the costumes and sets-a murmur swept through the audience when the curtain rose before the third dance, revealing a backdrop of red and green waves of color...
Diamond began filming Dancemaker just as Taylor was preparing to choreograph Piazzolla Caldera, the finest dance he has made since his 1991 masterpiece, Company B. In the new piece seven men and five women pair off to perform slinky tangos with a brittle, self-conscious physicality that has the ragged edge of barely controlled violence. To watch Piazzolla Caldera evolve from dancer Francie Huber's first tentative steps in the studio to the electrifying New York City premiere last March is a delicious act of artistic voyeurism...
Though Taylor steers clear of personal revelations, he speaks engagingly about his often dark dances: "I get my energy, I think, from being afraid--being afraid to choreograph, being afraid to fail." There are no failures on display in Dancemaker, just a clear-eyed portrait of a great artist at work...