Paul Taylor Dance Company

FUNNY PAPERS

Opus Number: 
101
Choreography: 
Sandra Stone, Mary Cochran, Hernando Cortez, David Grenke, Andrew Asnes and Patrick Corbin. Amended and combined by Paul Taylor
Music: 
Novelty tunes
Costumes: 
Santo Loquasto
Lighting: 
Jennifer Tipton
Date First Performed: 
October 12, 1994
Notes: 

“A mega-hit…The recordings are side-splitting, the choreography is hilarious, the dancers are terrific…A new work so comic in its intensity that it would be a grave mistake to consider it only lighthearted…Taylor's dedication [to the comics] speaks exactly to the human need that this dance satisfies so brilliantly and shrewdly” – Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times

Funny Papers

Photo: Paul B. Goode