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JOHNNY VORSTEG JAKE DEIBERT

IRVING AMIGON SLOAN PEARSON

Artistic Director
PAUL TAYLOR

Rehearsal Director, Taylor 2

RUTH ANDRIEN

Principal Lighting Designer Principal Costume Designer

JENNIFER TIPTON SANTO LOQUASTO
 Executive Director
JOHN TOMLINSON

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Leadership support provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Support also provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation; public funds from the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Additional support provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Shubert Foundation.

National tour supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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 DUET FROM LENTO

Music by Franz Josef Haydn

‘Largo, opus 51’
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by George Tacet, Ph.D.
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First performed in 1964)

Rei Akazawa Irving Amigon

Taylor 2 production of the duet from Lento made possible by a New York State Council on the Arts
Long-Term Dance Residency.

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PARTY MIX

Music by Alexei Haieff ‘Sonata for Two Pianos’

Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Alex Katz
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First Performed in 1963)

1:00PM Performance

The Hostess ..............................................................................................................Mariel Pettee

The Guests (in order of arrival)............................................................................. Peter Mansfield

.............................................................................................. Eva Albaighiti and Madelyn Blaney
........................................Liam Appelson , Mary Chandler Gwin, Aleca Borsuk, Brittany Stollar

3:00PM Performance

The Hostess ..............................................................................................................Mariel Pettee

The Guests (in order of arrival).......................................................................... Gabriela Drucker

.............................................................................................. Sabine Decatur, Luna Bellar-Tadiar
........................................Liam Appelson , Mary Chandler Gwin, Aleca Borsuk, Brittany Stollar

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Music by George Frideric Handel

Excerpts from Concerti Grossi,Op. 3,
Alcina, Ariodante, Berenice and Solomon
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Gene Moore
Original Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First performed in 1978; restaged for a cast of six in 1996)

Rei Akazawa Amanda Stevenson Princeton McCurtain

Jake Deibert Irving Amigon Sloan Pearson

Concerto in B Major, Op. 3, No. 2 – Largo ................................................................................... full cast

Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 6 – Vivace .................................................................................. full cast

Concerto in G Major, Op. 3, No. 3 – Adagio ....................................................................... Ms. Stevenson

Overture to Ariodante - Alla Gavotta ...............................................................Ms. Sloan and Mr. Amigon

Overture to Berenice - Movement III ............................................................................................. full cast

Concerto in F Major, Op. 3, No. 4b – Allegro ............................................. Ms. Akazawa and Mr. Deibert
Overture to Alcina - Musette

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba ....................................................................................................... full cast

Dream Music (Entrée des Songes Agreables) ................................................. Ms. Stevenson with full cast

Original Paul Taylor Dance Company production made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Taylor 2 production made possible by a New York State Council on the Arts Long-Term Dance Residency.

We will hold a post-show Q & A moderated by Paul Taylor Dance Company member Michael Apuzzo ’05.

PAUL TAYLOR

Paul Taylor is the greatest living pioneer of American modern dance, with 143 dances made since 1954 when he
established the Paul Taylor Dance Company. He continues to offer cogent observations on life’s complexities and
society’s thorniest issues through his dances. A virtuoso dancer for 20 years, Mr. Taylor turned exclusively to
choreography in 1974; the dance that followed, Esplanade, was hailed an instant classic. His works are performed by
the Taylor Company, Taylor 2 and ballet and modern dance companies the world over. In 2015 he established PAUL
TAYLOR’S AMERICAN MODERN DANCE to bring to Lincoln Center – in addition to his own repertoire – great
dances of the past and present by other choreographers, and works by the next generation of choreographers working
directly on his dancers. A Kennedy Center honoree, he is the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Dancemaker,
and author of the acclaimed autobiography, Private Domain.

PAUL TAYLOR
Paul Taylor, one of the most accomplished artists this nation has ever produced, continues to shape America’s
homegrown art of modern dance as he has since becoming a professional dancer and pioneering choreographer in 1954.
Having performed with Martha Graham’s company for several years, Mr. Taylor uniquely bridges the legendary
founders of modern dance – Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Doris Humphrey and Ms. Graham – and the
dance makers of the 21st Century with whom he is now working. Through his new initiative at Lincoln Center – Paul
Taylor American Modern Dance – he presents great modern works of the past and outstanding works by today’s
leading choreographers alongside his own vast and growing repertoire. And he commissions the next generation of
dance makers to work with his renowned Company, thereby helping to ensure the future of the art form. As an integral
part of his vision, these dances are accompanied at Lincoln Center by live music whenever so intended by the
choreographer.

At an age when most artists’ best work is behind them, Mr. Taylor continues to win public and critical acclaim for the
vibrancy, relevance and power of his dances. He offers cogent observations on life’s complexities while tackling some
of society’s thorniest issues. While he may propel his dancers through space for the sheer beauty of it, he more frequently
uses them to illuminate such profound issues as war, piety, spirituality, sexuality, morality and mortality. If, as George
Balanchine said, there are no mothers-in-law in ballet, there certainly are dysfunctional families, disillusioned idealists,
imperfect religious leaders, angels and insects in Mr. Taylor’s dances. His repertoire of 148 works covers a breathtaking
range of topics, but recurring themes include life and death; the natural world and man’s place within it; love and
sexuality in all gender combinations; and iconic moments in American history. His poignant looks at soldiers, those
who send them into battle and those they leave behind prompted the New York Times to hail him as “among the great
war poets” – high praise indeed for an artist in a wordless medium. While some of his dances have been termed “dark”
and others “light,” the majority of his works are dualistic, mixing elements of both extremes. And while his work has
largely been iconoclastic, he has also made some of the most purely romantic, most astonishingly athletic, and downright
funniest dances ever put on stage.

Paul Taylor was born on July 29, 1930 – exactly nine months after the stock market crash that led into the Great
Depression – and grew up in and around Washington, DC. He attended Syracuse University on a swimming scholarship
in the late 1940s until he discovered dance through books at the University library, and then transferred to The Juilliard
School. In 1954 he assembled a small company of dancers and began to choreograph. A commanding performer despite
his late start in dance, he joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1955 for the first of seven seasons as soloist
while continuing to choreograph on his own troupe. In 1959 he was invited to be a guest artist with New York City
Ballet, where Balanchine created the Episodes solo for him.

Mr. Taylor first gained notoriety as a dance maker in 1957 with Seven New Dances; its study in non-movement
famously earned it a blank newspaper review, and Graham subsequently dubbed him the “naughty boy” of dance. In
1962, with his first major success – the sunny Aureole – he set his trailblazing modern movement not to contemporary
music but to baroque works composed 200 years earlier, and then went to the opposite extreme a year later with a view
of purgatory in Scudorama, using a commissioned, modern score. He inflamed the establishment in 1965 by
lampooning some of America’s most treasured icons in From Sea To Shining Sea, and created more controversy in
1970 by putting incest and spousal abuse center stage in Big Bertha.

After retiring as a performer in 1974, Mr. Taylor turned exclusively to choreography, resulting in a flood of masterful
creativity. The exuberant Esplanade (1975), one of several Taylor dances set to music by Bach, was dubbed an instant
classic, and has come to be regarded as among the greatest dances ever made. In Cloven Kingdom (1976) Mr. Taylor
examined the primitive nature that lurks just below man’s veneer of sophistication and gentility. With Arden Court
(1981) he depicted relationships both platonic and romantic. He looked at intimacy among men at war in Sunset (1983);
pictured Armageddon in Last Look (1985); and peered unflinchingly at religious hypocrisy and marital rape in
Speaking In Tongues (1988). In Company B (1991) he used popular songs of the 1940s to juxtapose the high spirits
of a nation emerging from the Depression with the sacrifices so many Americans made during World War II. In
Eventide (1997) he portrayed the budding and fading of a romance. In The Word (1998), he railed against religious
zealotry and blind conformity to authority. In the first decade of the new millennium he poked fun at feminism in
Dream Girls (2002); condemned American imperialism in Banquet of Vultures (2005); and stared death square in the
face in the Walt Whitman-inspired Beloved Renegade (2008). Brief Encounters (2009) examined the inability of
many people in contemporary society to form meaningful and lasting relationships. In this decade he has turned a
famously frightening short story into a searing drama in To Make Crops Grow and compared the mating rituals of the
insect world to that of humans in the comedic Gossamer Gallants.

Hailed for uncommon musicality and catholic taste, Mr. Taylor has set movement to music so memorably that for many
people it is impossible to hear certain orchestral works and popular songs and not think of his dances. He has set works
to an eclectic mix that includes Medieval masses, Renaissance dances, baroque concertos, classical symphonies, and
scores by Debussy, Cage, Feldman, Ligeti and Pärt; Ragtime, Tango, Tin Pan Alley and Barbershop Quartets; Harry
Nilsson, The Mamas and The Papas, and Burl Ives; telephone time announcements, loon calls and laughter.

Mr. Taylor has influenced dozens of men and women who have gone on to choreograph – many on their own troupes –
while many others have gone on to become respected teachers at colleges and universities. And he has worked closely
with such outstanding artists as James F. Ingalls, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Ivey Long, Santo
Loquasto, Gene Moore, Tharon Musser, Robert Rauschenberg, John Rawlings, Thomas Skelton and Jennifer Tipton.

As the subject of the documentary films Dancemaker and Creative Domain, and author of the autobiography Private
Domain and Wall Street Journal essay Why I Make Dances, Mr. Taylor has shed light on the mysteries of the creative
process as few artists have. Dancemaker, which received an Oscar nomination in 1999, was hailed by Time as “perhaps
the best dance documentary ever,” while Private Domain, originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, was nominated by
the National Book Critics Circle as the most distinguished biography of 1987. A collection of Mr. Taylor’s essays, Facts
and Fancies, was published by Delphinium in 2013.

Mr. Taylor has received nearly every important honor given to artists in the United States. In 1992 he was a recipient
of the Kennedy Center Honors and received an Emmy Award for Speaking in Tongues, produced by WNET/New York
the previous year. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 1993. In 1995 he received the
Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts and was named one of 50 prominent Americans honored in
recognition of their outstanding achievement by the Library of Congress’s Office of Scholarly Programs. He is the
recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships, and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from California Institute of the
Arts, Connecticut College, Duke University, The Juilliard School, Skidmore College, the State University of New York
at Purchase, Syracuse University and Adelphi University. Awards for lifetime achievement include a MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship – often called the “genius award” – and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award.
Other awards include the New York State Governor's Arts Award and the New York City Mayor's Award of Honor for
Art and Culture. In 1989 Mr. Taylor was elected one of ten honorary members of the American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters. Having been elected to knighthood by the French government as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres in 1969 and elevated to Officier in 1984 and Commandeur in 1990, Mr. Taylor was awarded France’s highest
honor, the Légion d’Honneur, in 2000 for exceptional contributions to French culture.

Mr. Taylor’s dances are performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the six-member Taylor 2 (begun in 1993), and
companies throughout the world including the Royal Danish Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre,
San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He remains among the most sought-
after choreographers working today, commissioned by presenting organizations the world over.

Continuing to embrace new challenges, in 2012 Mr. Taylor moved the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s annual New York
City performances to Lincoln Center, where it has attracted larger audiences than ever before. In 2015, in addition to
Mr. Taylor’s own dances, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance presented the Limón Dance Company in Doris
Humphrey’s Passacaglia from 1938, and Shen Wei Dance Arts in Shen Wei’s Rite of Spring from 2004. In 2016
PTAMD presented Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in Donald McKayle’s Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder from
1959 and the Paul Taylor Dance Company performed a dance by Martha Graham for the first time: Diversion of Angels
from 1948. Under the new initiative Taylor Company Commissions, choreographers Larry Keigwin and Doug Elkins
created works on the Taylor dancers, which were premiered at Lincoln Center: Rush Hour by Mr. Keigwin and The
Weight of Smoke by Mr. Elkins. As part of the commissioning program, Taylor alumna Lila York made Continuum
on the Company for the 2017 Season.

Noted dance critic Robert Johnson applauded Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, writing, “Any serious effort to
preserve our fragile dance inheritance deserves a rousing ‘Hosanna!’ and ‘Amen!’”

PAUL TAYLOR 2 DANCE COMPANY

Paul Taylor established the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company in 1993 to ensure that his works could be seen by audiences
all over the world, unhindered by economic or technical limitations. Working with longtime colleague Linda Hodes, he
modeled Taylor 2 after the original six-member company he established in 1954. Taylor 2 is able to perform in smaller
venues with more modest budgets than the larger Paul Taylor Dance Company without sacrificing any of the artistry
that characterizes a Taylor performance.

Taylor 2 engagements are customized to meet the needs of each community and often consist of master classes and
lecture demonstrations in addition to performances, which may take place in such non-traditional venues as office
buildings, parks and public plazas as well as theaters. In selecting repertoire for Taylor 2, Mr. Taylor chooses dances
that represent the athleticism, humor and range of emotions found in his work. Several of these dances have been
reworked to enable the smaller ensemble of dancers to perform them.

Taylor 2 was inaugurated with a United States Information Agency-sponsored tour to six African nations in 1994, and
in 1996 the Company toured to three Baltic nations. In 1997 Taylor 2 toured throughout India in tandem with the Paul
Taylor Dance Company in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of India’s independence. The Company’s international
touring has continued, with recent tours to Germany, Poland, Mexico and Canada.

Domestically, Taylor 2 tours extensively each year and has performed in all but two of the 50 States. Over the years,
Taylor 2 has undertaken several statewide tours, including Wisconsin, Alaska, and South Carolina. In 2008, Taylor 2,
in tandem with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, undertook an ambitious statewide tour of Pennsylvania, with
performances in 20 cities and towns over four weeks. In November 2005, Taylor 2 and the Paul Taylor Dance Company
completed an unprecedented 18-month 50-State tour in celebration of the Taylor Company’s 50th Anniversary.

Taylor 2 is particularly active within New York State and the New York City Public Schools, visiting classrooms in all
five boroughs each year for performances, movement classes and lecture-demonstrations. Taylor 2 has also customized
more intensive curriculum-based residencies in cities across the country. The most ambitious of these was undertaken
during the 2006-07 school year when Taylor 2 spent four full weeks in the Boston Public School District.

For more information please visit www.ptamd.org.

THE COMPANY

RUTH ANDRIEN, Rehearsal Director of the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company, danced with the Paul Taylor Dance
Company from 1974 to 1983, originating roles in such works as Esplanade, Runes, Airs, Images and Le Sacre du
Printemps (The Rehearsal). She has restaged Mr. Taylor’s work for professional companies and universities around the
world. Ms. Andrien has been on the faculty of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Swarthmore College, Harvard
University, MIT, Southern Methodist University, The School at Jacobs Pillow, New York State Summer School of the
Arts, The Taylor School and the American Dance Festival, where she directed the Paul Taylor Project for the past three
years. She has worked closely with The American Dance Legacy Institute at Brown University, which focuses on
preservation and access to American dance heritage. She served as master teacher for the National Foundation for
Advancement of the Arts in Miami and for the U.S. State Department’s cultural exchange program in Tunisia. She was
the recipient of Towson University’s Rosenberg Award for Distinguished Artists in 2002 and the
Balasaraswati/Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 2009 with Carolyn Adams and Sharon Kinney.
Ms. Andrien received her MFA in Dance at Hollins University in 2007. She became Rehearsal Director of Taylor 2 in
2010.

ALANA ALLENDE grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey. A graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
Performing Arts, she attended Long Island University – Brooklyn Campus. She was an Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater Fellowship Recipient from 2003 to 2008, and performed Judith Jamison’s Hymn at the Ailey company’s 45th
Anniversary Opening Night Gala. As a company member of CityDance2 Ensemble in 2009-10, Ms. Allende toured to
Bahrain, performed throughout Washington, DC, and helped bring dance to schools in the DC area through the
company’s outreach program. She joined Taylor 2 in Summer 2010.

LEE DUVENECK grew up in Arlington, Texas, where he trained with Anne Oswalt and Gwen Price. He earned his
B.F.A. in dance performance from Southern Methodist University in 2010, having performed works by Paul Taylor,
Twyla Tharp and Danny Buraczeski. While in New York, he has danced for Annmaria Mazzini and Mari Meade. He
joined Taylor 2 in Summer 2012.

REI AKAZAWA was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, where she began her ballet training (Royal Academy of Dance)
under the direction of Yuko Kojima. She graduated cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from Marymount Manhattan
College, receiving the Gold Key for Excellence. While a student there, she assisted in teaching and demonstrating
Graham Technique Master Classes for Miki Orihara and Alessandra Prosperi. She has danced with H.T. Chen and
Dancers, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, and played the role of Eliza in The King and I at Walnut Street Theater in
Philadelphia. She participated in The Taylor School 2012 Summer Intensive and joined the Paul Taylor 2 Dance
Company immediately afterward.

AMANDA STEVENSON is originally from Tempe, Arizona, where she started her ballet training with Andrew
Needhammer of Ballet Arizona Dance Company and School. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a
B.F.A. majoring in Dance, with an emphasis on Modern Dance and Choreography. Ms. Stevenson has performed
throughout the New York Metropolitan area as a soloist and ensemble dancer with ACB Dance Company, Mazzini
Dance Collective and EDP Dance Project. She has been a teaching artist with the Joffrey Ballet School, Rioult Dance
Company and Education In Dance. She participated in the 2008 and 2009 Taylor Intensives and received a scholarship
to attend The Taylor School. She also studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. She joined Taylor
2 in Summer 2013.

PRINCETON MCCURTAIN, a native of Fort Smith, Arkansas, began his training as a scholarship student at
Centenary College of Louisiana. After appearing in the movie The Great Debaters he transferred to Grambling State
University to dance with the Orchesis Dance Company, and later received his Bachelor’s degree in theatre. He became
a member of Louisiana Dance Theatre in 2010, and his choreography was entered into Regional Dance America's
Emerging Choreographer Scholarship Competition. After studying at The Ailey School, he became a member of Keen
Dance Theater, performed with the Aido Kodo Dance Company, and appeared on Guyana’s version of So You Think
You Can Dance. He joined Dallas Black Dance Theatre II in 2012, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble a year
later. He joined Taylor 2 in Spring 2014.

JOHNNY VORSTEG grew up in Verona, New Jersey and began his formal dance training at 18, studying primarily
with Bil Badolato at NYU and later at Peridance Capezio Center. He has danced in works by Taylor dancers Annmaria
Mazzini, James Samson and Orion Duckstein, and by Chase Brock, Chet Walker, Geoffrey Doig-Marx, and Nancy
Lushington. He performed in Paul Taylor’s Company B at Montclair State University, where he earned degrees in Dance
and English. He also performed in La Cage Aux Folles with Phoenix Theatre. In Summer 2011 Mr. Vorsteg was the
American Dance Guild Scholarship recipient to the School at Jacob's Pillow. He began dancing at The Taylor School
in 2013 and was later awarded a scholarship to continue his studies there. He joined Taylor 2 in Spring 2015.

JAKE DEIBERT was born in Atlantic City, NJ and grew up in Flemington, NJ. He received a B.F.A. in Dance and
Dance Education from Montclair State University in 2014. He performed with companies including Rioult Dance NY,
Von Howard Project, DiMauro Dance, Zullo/Raw Movement, 360Dance Company, Mazzini Dance Collective, 10 Hairy
Legs, Douglas Dunn and Dancers and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. He attended the Taylor School Summer
Intensive in 2012. Mr. Deibert made his debut with Taylor 2 in Summer 2017.

IRVING AMIGON was born in Brooklyn, NY and was raised in Minneapolis, MN and Puebla, Mexico. He received
his B.A. in Dance from the University of Minnesota in 2011. He performed with Battery Dance Company and Alison
Cook Beatty Dance Company. He studied at The Ailey School and The Taylor School on scholarship and at the Merce
Cunningham Trust and Buglisi Dance Theater. He serves as assistant to Carolyn Adams in the Taylor Technique and
Repertory Class – Professional Division at The Ailey School. Mr. Amigon made his debut with Taylor 2 in Summer
2017.

SLOAN PEARSON, a North Carolina native, began dancing at age three with Charlotte Ballet under the direction of
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. She attended Point Park University with a modern dance concentration
and performed works by Martha Graham, Nicolas Petrov, Douglas Bentz, and Garfield Lemonius. After receiving her
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016, she danced with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II and Kybele Dance
Theater, and as a guest artist with Debbie Allen in performances throughout Los Angeles. Ms. Pearson joined Taylor 2
in Fall 2017.

THE COMPANY

RUTH ANDRIEN, Rehearsal Director of the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company, danced with the Paul Taylor Dance
Company from 1974 to 1983, originating roles in such works as Esplanade, Runes, Airs, Images and Le Sacre du
Printemps (The Rehearsal). She has restaged Mr. Taylor’s work for professional companies and universities around the
world. Ms. Andrien has been on the faculty of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Swarthmore College, Harvard
University, MIT, Southern Methodist University, The School at Jacobs Pillow, New York State Summer School of the
Arts, The Taylor School and the American Dance Festival, where she directed the Paul Taylor Project for the past three
years. She has worked closely with The American Dance Legacy Institute at Brown University, which focuses on
preservation and access to American dance heritage. She served as master teacher for the National Foundation for
Advancement of the Arts in Miami and for the U.S. State Department’s cultural exchange program in Tunisia. She was
the recipient of Towson University’s Rosenberg Award for Distinguished Artists in 2002 and the
Balasaraswati/Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 2009 with Carolyn Adams and Sharon Kinney.
Ms. Andrien received her MFA in Dance at Hollins University in 2007. She became Rehearsal Director of Taylor 2 in
2010.

REI AKAZAWA was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, where she began her ballet training (Royal Academy of Dance)
under the direction of Yuko Kojima. She graduated cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from Marymount Manhattan
College, receiving the Gold Key for Excellence. While a student there, she assisted in teaching and demonstrating
Graham Technique Master Classes for Miki Orihara and Alessandra Prosperi. She has danced with H.T. Chen and
Dancers, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, and played the role of Eliza in The King and I at Walnut Street Theater in
Philadelphia. She participated in The Taylor School 2012 Summer Intensive and joined the Paul Taylor 2 Dance
Company immediately afterward.

AMANDA STEVENSON is originally from Tempe, Arizona, where she started her ballet training with Andrew
Needhammer of Ballet Arizona Dance Company and School. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a
B.F.A. majoring in Dance, with an emphasis on Modern Dance and Choreography. Ms. Stevenson has performed
throughout the New York Metropolitan area as a soloist and ensemble dancer with ACB Dance Company, Mazzini
Dance Collective and EDP Dance Project. She has been a teaching artist with the Joffrey Ballet School, Rioult Dance
Company and Education In Dance. She participated in the 2008 and 2009 Taylor Intensives and received a scholarship
to attend The Taylor School. She also studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. She joined Taylor
2 in Summer 2013.

PRINCETON MCCURTAIN, a native of Fort Smith, Arkansas, began his training as a scholarship student at
Centenary College of Louisiana. After appearing in the movie The Great Debaters he transferred to Grambling State
University to dance with the Orchesis Dance Company, and later received his Bachelor’s degree in theatre. He became
a member of Louisiana Dance Theatre in 2010, and his choreography was entered into Regional Dance America's
Emerging Choreographer Scholarship Competition. After studying at The Ailey School, he became a member of Keen
Dance Theater, performed with the Aido Kodo Dance Company, and appeared on Guyana’s version of So You Think You
Can Dance. He joined Dallas Black Dance Theatre II in 2012, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble a year later.
He joined Taylor 2 in Spring 2014.

JOHNNY VORSTEG grew up in Verona, New Jersey and began his formal dance training at 18, studying primarily
with Bil Badolato at NYU and later at Peridance Capezio Center. He has danced in works by Taylor dancers Annmaria
Mazzini, James Samson and Orion Duckstein, and by Chase Brock, Chet Walker, Geoffrey Doig-Marx, and Nancy
Lushington. He performed in Paul Taylor’s Company B at Montclair State University, where he earned degrees in Dance
and English. He also performed in La Cage Aux Folles with Phoenix Theatre. In Summer 2011 Mr. Vorsteg was the
American Dance Guild Scholarship recipient to the School at Jacob's Pillow. He began dancing at The Taylor School
in 2013 and was later awarded a scholarship to continue his studies there. He joined Taylor 2 in Spring 2015.

JAKE DEIBERT was born in Atlantic City, NJ and grew up in Flemington, NJ. He received a B.F.A. in Dance and
Dance Education in 2014 from Montclair State University. He performed with companies including Rioult Dance NY,
Von Howard Project, DiMauro Dance, Zullo/Raw Movement, 360Dance Company, Mazzini Dance Collective, 10 Hairy
Legs, Douglas Dunn and Dancers and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. He attended the Taylor School Summer
Intensive in 2012 and learned Esplanade, Runes, Company B and Black Tuesday. He makes his debut with Taylor 2 in
Summer 2017.

IRVING AMIGON was born in Brooklyn, NY and was raised in Minneapolis, MN and Puebla, Mexico. He received
his B.A. in Dance in 2011 from the University of Minnesota. He performed with Battery Dance Company and Alison
Cook Beatty Dance Company. He studied at the Taylor School, The Ailey School, Merce Cunningham Trust and Buglisi
Dance Theater. He serves as assistant to Carolyn Adams in the Taylor Technique and Repertory Class – Professional
Division at The Ailey School. He makes his debut with Taylor 2 in Summer 2017.

SLOAN PEARSON a North Carolina native, began dancing at age three with Charlotte Ballet under the direction of
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. She attended Point Park University with a modern dance concentration
and performed works by Martha Graham, Nicolas Petrov, Douglas Bentz, and Garfield Lemonius. After receiving her
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016, she danced with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II and Kybele Dance
Theater, and as a guest artist with Debbie Allen in performances throughout Los Angeles. Ms. Pearson joined Taylor 2
in Fall 2017.
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Paul Taylor, President
C.F. Stone III, Chairman Richard E. Feldman Esq.
Elise Jaffe, Vice Chairman Darcy Gilpin
Scott King, Vice Chairman John D. Golenski
Max R. Shulman, Vice Chairman John G. Heimann
Stephen Weinroth, Vice Chairman C. Hugh Hildesley
Dr. Robert A. Scott, Vice Chairman Marjorie S. Isaac, Trustee Emerita
Joseph A. Smith, Treasurer Randolph Kantorowicz
Joan C. Bowman, Secretary Roger A. Kluge
John Tomlinson, Executive Director Wilfred Koplowitz, Trustee Emeritus
Robert E. Aberlin Dianne La Basse
Carolyn Adams Lee Manning-Vogelstein
Lisa Brothers Arbisser, MD Douglas L. Peterson
Norma Ketay Asnes Ariane Reinhart
Norton Belknap, Trustee Emeritus Charles L. Reinhart
Sally Brayley Bliss Yvonne Rieber
Nancy H. Coles, MD Hal Rubenstein
Christine Ramsay Covey William A. Shutzer
Deirdre K. Dunn Andrew Wilcox
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STAFF
Artistic Director .........................................................................................Paul Taylor
Rehearsal Director .................................................................................... Bettie de Jong
Principal Lighting Designer .....................................................................Jennifer Tipton
Principal Lighting Designer ................................................................... James F. Ingalls
Principal Set & Costume Designer .......................................................... Santo Loquasto
Taylor 2 Rehearsal Director ....................................................................... Ruth Andrien
Taylor School Director.............................................................................. Raegan Wood
Assistant to Mr. Taylor .............................................................................. Andy LeBeau
Associate Rehearsal Director............................................................. Michael Trusnovec

Production Manager / Lighting Supervisor ................................................ Robert Brown

Wardrobe Supervisor ........................................................................ Clarion Overmoyer
Stage Manager ....................................................................................... Katherine Houff

Executive Director ................................................................................. John Tomlinson

Chief Development Officer ........................................................................ Carmel Owen
Director of Finance ................................................................................. Sarah Schindler
Director of Public Relations ........................................................................ Lisa Labrado
Director of Tour Engagements .................................................................. Tim Robinson
Director of Individual Giving ..................................................................... Josie Duckett
Director of Institutional Relations .......................................................... Catherine Mikić
Company Manager.................................................................................... Bridget Welty
Archival Supervisor/Administrator............................................................... Tom Patrick
Manager of Development Operations .......................................................... Jenna Jacobs
Development Associate..................................................................................Dorcas Yip
Executive Assistant .................................................................................... Noah Aberlin
Administrative Assistant .................................................................. Christopher Senquiz
Strategic Operations ..................................................................................... Bruce Fagin
Information Technology Consultant ..................................... Andy LeBeau, PC Umbrella
TTaylor 2 Tour Booking ................................. Jeannette Gardner, Gardner Arts Network
 Digital Marketing Consultants ............................................................. The Pekoe Group
Archival Consultant ................................................ Linda Edgerly, The Winthrop Group
Auditor ............................................................................ Michael Wallace, Lutz & Carr
Orthopedic Consultant .................................................................. David S. Weiss, M.D.
Travel Agent .............................................................................. Michael Retsina, Altour
Mr. Taylor’s Transportation ........................................................................ Will Coloma

THE TAYLOR SCHOOL

Taylor style and repertoire classes are held for professional dancers throughout the year, taught by former and current
Taylor Company members. The School offers Summer and Winter Intensives for students from around the world
interested in a more in-depth study of Paul Taylor style and choreography, as well as youth and adult classes. For
information, schedules and registration forms, please visit www.ptamd.org.

MERCHANDISE
Dancemaker, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about Paul Taylor, is available on DVD as is Paul Taylor
Dance Company in Paris, featuring Brandenburgs and Beloved Renegade. Copies of Mr. Taylor’s acclaimed
autobiography, Private Domain; his new book, Facts and Fancies; and Paul Taylor Dance Company souvenir items,
are also available. To order merchandise, call (212) 431-5562.

The taking of photographs and the use of mechanical recording devices are strictly prohibited.
Program subject to change.
Latecomers will be seated only during intermissions.
Please turn off pagers and cell phones during the performance.

Yale Dance Theater (YDT) is a faculty-sponsored extracurricular dance initiative that applies a research agenda to the
licensing of existing choreography and/or commissioning of new work. YDT creates a structure for our most talented
students to interact with dance artists of the highest caliber over a longer period of time than afforded by one master
class, emphasizing this endeavor as an extension of the practice-based movement research methods honed in the dance
studies courses. In the spirit of arts advocacy and outreach to the Yale and New Haven communities, we share our work
publicly at the end of the semester in a final performance. The dancers post their written reflections throughout the
process on an online blog, and we aim eventually to publish YDT writing online and in annual issues of the Yale Dance
Journal. For more information about YDT visit ydt.yale.edu/.

Faculty Director: Emily Coates, Assistant professor adjunct of Theater Studies; director of the Dance Studies
curriculum; ’06, ’11 GRD

YDT Coordinators: Brittany Stollar & Elayna Garner

Associate Producer: Jared Michaud (MC ’19)

Yale Dance Theater 2018 is cosponsored by Theater Studies/Dance Studies curriculum and Alliance for Dance at
Yale with support from the Arts Discretionary Fund in Yale College.

With special thanks to Kathryn Krier, Penelope Laurans, Joy McGrath, Dan Harrison, Nathan Roberts, May Brantley,
Nicole Slabaugh, Theater Studies, Jared Michaud, Pam Patterson, Stephen Davis, Tanya Wiedeking, Pierson College,
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Stevenson, Tim Robinson, the members of Taylor 2, and special guests Richard Chen See, Linda Kent, Bettie de Jong,
Carolyn Adams, and Michael Apuzzo (’05). Extra special thanks to Paul Taylor for sharing these works with the Yale
community and a lifetime of achievement in dance.