Celebrate Taylor's career full of vibrant movements and bold subjects with the DC premiere of a new Wolf Trap co-commissioned work by this living legend of modern dance choreography.

• “I make dances because I can’t help it. Working on dances has become a way of life, an addiction that at times resembles a fatal disease. Even so, I’ve no intention of kicking the habit. I make dances because I believe in the power of contemporary dance, its immediacy, its potency, its universality. I make dances because that’s what I’ve spent many years teaching myself to do and it’s become what I’m best at. When the dances are good, nothing else brings me as much satisfaction. When they aren’t, I’ve had the luxury, in the past at least, of being allowed to create others.” —Paul Tayor, from “Why I Make Dances”
• The Paul Taylor Dance Company has been a major player in advancing modern dance for 55 years, performing in more than 520 cities in 62 countries. Taylor’s choreography, once deemed experimental and avant-garde, quickly became the gold standard of modern dance.