Volume 34, Number 10 · June 11, 1987
The Monstrous Itch
By Lincoln Kirstein
Private Domain
by Paul Taylor
Knopf, 371 pp., $22.95
Paul Taylor's autobiography is an unexpected tale, written with candor and displaying the very energy, elegance, and intensity that was seen in Last Look, his choreographic masterpiece of 1985. His explication of the process of inventing dance compositions, his exhaustive narration of how an independent dance company is established, surviving nearly thirty years through individual performers who come, stay, and go, is supported by a ferocious self-portrait, whose honesty contains no self-indulgence.
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