The newest: gala night at Paul Taylor Dance in New York

Yuniel Betancourt in Lauren Lovette's stim

Lee Duveneck and Madelyn Ho with PTDC in Talor's Sunset

Patrick Gamble and Company in Robert Battle's Under the Rhythm

Elizabeth Chapa and John Harange in Lauren Lovette's stim

Lee Duveneck and Alex Clayton in Robert Battle's Under the Rhythm

Paul Taylor Dance Company in Sunset

By Carla Escoda, 14 November 2025

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“hands in their pockets, gestures and glances luminous with intent, stretches of eloquent stillness”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, New York City on 11 November 2025

Sunset (Paul Taylor)

stim (world premiere) (Lauren Lovette)

Under the Rhythm (world premiere) (Robert Battle)

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Santo Loquasto, Set Designer, Costume Designer

James F Ingalls, Lighting Designer

Burke Wilmore, Lighting Designer

Paul Taylor Dance Company in London: musicality reigns supreme

Deborah Weiss, 28th January

Paul Taylor Dance Company's second programme at the Linbury is an invigorating, uplifting, refreshing mix of easily digestible, pure dance.

****1

Paul Taylor Dance Company: exhilarating in new and legacy works

Daniel Pratt, 27th January

A welcome return to London by Paul Taylor Dance Company after more than two decades, this triple bill was worth the wait.

****1

The extremes: Paul Taylor Dance at the Koch

Carla Escoda, 9th November

From disturbing to daffy: a searing indictment and a gentle parody, both from Paul Taylor, at Lincoln Center in New York, as his company continues to pack houses in its fall season.

***11

The crowd-pleasers: Paul Taylor Dance on fire in New York

Carla Escoda, 8th November

Company B and Esplanade bookended a popular mixed bill from Paul Taylor Dance Company in the first week of their ambitious fall season at New York's Lincoln Center.

****1

Paul Taylor Dance Company: Churchyard explores sacred and profane

Ivy Lin, 18th June

An interesting triple bill with some rarely seen Paul Taylor works carefully reconstructed. Esplanade still sends the audience home filled with joy.

****1

Pretty and beastly: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 17th June

An intriguing reconstruction of an early work by Paul Taylor created on Pina Bausch and Dan Wagoner and a classic of barbed satire made a powerful triple bill by PTDC.

****1

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.