The Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to University Park for the first time in 13 years for a performance of Taylor's 2002 masterpiece "Promethean Fire" and other signature works at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Eisenhower Auditorium.
Tickets are $33 for adults, $15 for University Park students and $24 for people 18 and younger. For tickets and information, visit http://www.cpa.psu.edu or call (814) 863-0255 or (800) ARTS-TIX. Tickets also are available at Eisenhower Auditorium and Bryce Jordan Center, Penn State Tickets Downtown and HUB-Robeson Center.
"Promethean Fire," a 20-minute piece that features the full company of dancers, is set to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Prelude in E-flat minor and Chorale Prelude "Wir glauben allâ an einen Gott."
The other scheduled works, also choreographed by Taylor, are "Roses" (1985) and "Book of Beasts " (1971). "Roses," danced to Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" and Heinrich Baermann's "Adagio for Clarinet and Strings," features six couples. "Book of Beasts" unfolds in "chapters" involving various configurations of company dancers. Musical selections include works by Schubert, Saint-Saens, Mozart, Beethoven, Boccherini and Tchaikovsky.
Free audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion that provides insight from a visiting artist or local expert, is offered in Eisenhower Auditorium one hour before the performance and is free for ticket-holders. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis.
In conjunction with the appearance by Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Center for the Performing Arts presents a free screening of the Oscar-nominated film "Dancemaker," about the career of Paul Taylor, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, in the Palmer Museum of Art's Palmer Lipcon Auditorium on the University Park campus. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.