Paul Taylor Dance Company and TVGEIS have announced today that feature documentary “Paul Taylor: Creative Domain” will be released theatrically in key US cities from September 11th. The film will open in New York City at The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and Director Kate Geis, Executive Producer Robert Aberlin, dance luminaries and dancers featured in the film will attend post screening Q&As.
“Paul Taylor: Creative Domain” premiered at the prestigious Dance On Camera Film Festival and has been shown at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and many more film festivals around the country. The film will open in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago and other key cities in September, giving a rare glimpse of the process and creator of The Paul Taylor Dance Company.
“I’m thrilled that ‘Paul Taylor: Creative Domain’ will be reaching the national audience who know and love Mr. Taylor’s work, and audiences who will be introduced to this charismatic icon of modern dance. It was a dream come true to be able to make this film.” – Kate Geis, Director.
Paul Taylor is one of the dance world’s most elusive and admired choreographers. For 60 years he has given only glimpses into his creative process, but for his 133rd dance, ‘Three Dubious Memories,’ the audience is allowed into his studio. “Paul Taylor: Creative Domain” is an in-depth exploration of how Mr. Taylor creates a single work.
The film begins with Mr. Taylor dancing in his youth, describing the nature of dance, ‘you learn to live day to day, hour to hour.’ We leap to Mr.Taylor present day, now in his 80’s, still living his life in the moment, with his mind intently focused on his next dance. His new work is a Rashomon-inspired exploration of memory, three characters entangled in a relationship, and each believing only in their own dark memory of it.
Through the lens of award-winning cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, we witness Mr. Taylor’s verbal and non-verbal communication with his dancers. Below the surface of this dance and the many works that came before, is his power of acute observation, revealing a side to his choreography that is strangely prophetic. The dominant voice is Paul Taylor’s and between the guarded and unguarded moments we see him with new eyes and new understanding.
