We're thrilled to announce that The Paul Taylor Dance Company will be reprising Vive La Loïe, Jody Sperling’s magical tribute to modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller. The solo is a wild phantasmagoria of swirling silk and color that expands material originally choreographed for the motion picture The Dancer, the 2016 biographical historical drama about Fuller.

Three performances only!

Wed Nov 12 at 7pm
Sat Nov 15 at 2pm
Sat Nov 22 at 8pm

Critics rave about Jody sperling’s work for the paul taylor dance company

Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
"Sperling’s “Vive La Loïe!” brings Fuller’s legacy to life in a solo for Ferretti, who is perched on a high platform and whose arms stir a voluminous dress into motion — waterfalls, waves and curling petals — as it catches the light. Set to selections of Max Richter’s reimagining of Vivaldi, “Vive” fills the stage with magic, courtesy of David Ferri’s lighting, which casts the fabric in shades of blue, lilac, yellow and red. Ferretti is a magician, too, as she manipulates the fabric to obscure her body or to flutter majestically, just like a white-winged dove. She is Stevie Nicks, enhanced and floating on a cloud."

Marina Harss, Dancing Around
"The shapes are ever-changing, full of poetic associations. That constant flow allows a kind of release, a sense of wonder, surprise, sometimes amazement. . . . Over the course of the piece, she becomes a flame, a flower, an ocean, the Victory of Samothrace, a moth, a bird, a flag, fireworks."

Mary Cargill, Dance View Times
"pure beauty . . . a generous nod to an often unacknowledged forbearer of modern dance."

Eye on Dance, Mary Seidman
"a movement poem suggesting the mystery of the universe."

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photo above by Whitney Browne