Dance: Divine Comedy

Robert Kleinendorst, of Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance.

Joan Acocella

AS THE CURTAIN RISES on Paul Taylor’s 1985 piece “Last Look”—it will be part of his company’s current season at the Koch Theatre—you see, under a low, grimy light, a big pile of God knows what in the middle of the stage. It starts to move. It is a pile of human beings. Slowly, they crawl apart. One man stands out from the others. He rises; he falls; he rises and falls again and again, flinging his arms and legs so violently that he seems to be trying to cast them of his body. The dancer here is Robert Kleinendorst. Much of Taylor’s best work depends on the performers looking human and inhuman at the same time, and no one in the company looks more human than Kleinendorst, down to…

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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, Mar-16-15

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