Critics rave about Jody sperling’s work for the paul taylor dance company
Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
"Sperling’s “Vive La Loïe!” brings Fuller’s legacy to life in a solo for Ferretti, who is perched on a high platform and whose arms stir a voluminous dress into motion — waterfalls, waves and curling petals — as it catches the light. Set to selections of Max Richter’s reimagining of Vivaldi, “Vive” fills the stage with magic, courtesy of David Ferri’s lighting, which casts the fabric in shades of blue, lilac, yellow and red. Ferretti is a magician, too, as she manipulates the fabric to obscure her body or to flutter majestically, just like a white-winged dove. She is Stevie Nicks, enhanced and floating on a cloud."
Marina Harss, Dancing Around
"The shapes are ever-changing, full of poetic associations. That constant flow allows a kind of release, a sense of wonder, surprise, sometimes amazement. . . . Over the course of the piece, she becomes a flame, a flower, an ocean, the Victory of Samothrace, a moth, a bird, a flag, fireworks."
Mary Cargill, Dance View Times
"pure beauty . . . a generous nod to an often unacknowledged forbearer of modern dance."
Eye on Dance, Mary Seidman
"a movement poem suggesting the mystery of the universe."
About Vive La Loïe! Oberon’s Grove
”drew a passionate round of applause . . . Brava !
About Clair de Lune: Oberon’s Grove
”spellbinding”
Out and About
”wowed the audience”
We're thrilled to announce that The Paul Taylor Dance Company will be performing two works by Time Lapse Dance Artistic Director, Jody Sperling, created in tribute to modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller the modern dance icon and theater technologist who revolutionized dance and theater at the dawn of the 20th Century. Clair de Lune (an excerpt from her 2005 3-part suite “Debussy Soirée”) set to piano music by Claude Debussy, evokes the shimmer of a moonlit sky. Vive La Loïe! (World Premiere) is a wild phantasmagoria of swirling silk and color that expands material originally choreographed for the motion picture The Dancer, the 2016 biographical historical drama about Fuller, directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto.
Clair de Lune
Sat Nov 16 @ 8pm
Tue Nov 19 @ 7pm
Sat Nov 23 @ 2pm
Vive La Loïe!
Fri Nov 8 @ 8pm
Sun Nov 10 @ 3pm
Sat Nov 16 @ 2pm
Fri Nov 22 @ 8pm
Jody Sperling performing Clair de Lune, one of the works in the Paul Taylor Dance Company November 2024 Season at Lincoln Center. Photo by Gregory Cary.
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