After a 23-year hiatus, Paul Taylor Dance Company returned to London with a programme that began with Brandenburgs, rightly regarded as Taylor’s masterpiece, fusing baroque and contemporary dance to create kaleidoscopic patterns of fluid movement, his choreography knitting bodies into shape in a seamless flow of invention.
Piazzolla Caldera is inspired by Tango, which Taylor has reimagined through the lens of modern dance in a work that sizzles with lust and the heat implied by the title. It is unashamedly sexy: men are macho and the women, alluringly seductive.
Robert Battle’s first work for PTDC, Under the Rhythm, is in tribute to his mother, and the love of jazz that she instilled in him. To an eclectic soundtrack including Ella Fitzgerald and Steve Reich, Battle eschews superstition ...
