Eryc Taylor Dance makes its Joyce SoHo debut November 10-13 with six new works that showcase Taylor's emotional and edgy choreography of new movements for dancers on and off pointe. Danced with remarkable technical precision by Taylor's company of six dancers, these raw, brutally honest pieces reveal the dancers' inner psyches and underlying impulses through structures inspired by the beauty of the human form in motion.
Following its sold-out debut performance at The Ailey Citigroup Theater in 2009, Eryc Taylor Dance, formed in 2007, is entering its second New York season. At Joyce SoHo, Taylor will present six world premieres in which he characteristically pushes the boundaries of his own palette. In the ambitious Terminus, set to music by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, a quintet of social separatists realize they're slipping hastily toward an apocalyptic end and will do whatever it takes to change their course - even cooperate.
Personal loss summons the ghostly vocabulary of Wraith, a duet for women evoking the emotions of an unfinished relationship, set to music by Norman Corbell from the video game Heavy Rain. In contrast, The Polarity is a testosterone-filled duet energized by the music of Tomandandy and DJ Shadow, igniting the secret polarity of attraction which men are all too fearful to express when in combat.
Taylor created two pieces set to scores newly composed for the company by Daniel Tobias. In The Missing, Taylor has created a devastating solo piece inspired by Louise Bourgeois' nightmarish sculpture Cell (Arch of Hysteria) and set to Tobias' raw piano composition from which the piece takes its name. Dancer Michelle Pelizzon evokes a craze of personal madness in which beauty and the grotesque become increasingly indistinguishable. In Song for Quartet, Taylor reveals warm, soaring romances whose textures are shimmering and delicate, belying the en pointe strength and technique required for this quartet. This poem of movement is set to Tobias' Song for Cello and Piano.
A diverse collection of music by Olvidie, Joseph Mace Scaron and Serge Ancona, and Michael Nyman provides the backdrop for Drown Town, an urban poem danced en pointe, inspired by the delights, excitement and suffering of fleeting flirtations, romances and one-night stands. This sextet presents a constant river of temptation and an ever-present co-mingling of urgent personal agendas which heighten each lover's experience and sabotage its potential.
Eryc Taylor Dance will perform at Joyce SoHo from November 10-13, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets are $15. Tickets can be purchased at www.smarttix.com /212-868-4444 and at www.eryctaylor.com. Joyce SoHo's address is 155 Mercer Street, between Houston and Prince Streets.
About Eryc Taylor:
Eryc Taylor is a native of Los Angeles, California. After receiving a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts/Philadelphia and an MFA in Dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he studied abroad at the London Contemporary School of Dance and at the Centre de Danse du Marais in Paris. The recipient of several major scholarships, including a residency at Jacob's Pillow, he spent two years with the Cunningham Dance Repertory Group.
