Paul Taylor Dance Company on PBS tonight

Great Performances is  showing a performance of Paul Taylor Dance Company tonight:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/paul-taylor-dance-company-in-paris/about-the-film/1649/

Brandenburgs is one of Taylor’s magnificent collection of works set to music by a master of the baroque.  The dance’s exuberance matches the ferocious energy of Bach’s spirited concertos. Mary Clarke of the Manchester [UK] Guardian wrote, “Beauty is the only word for Brandenburgs… [which] celebrates the good things in life.  Such a radiant, seamless flow of invention that the choreography seems an entirely natural way of moving to this music.”
Beloved Renegade is set to Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria.”  The dance was inspired by the life and work of 19th Century American writer Walt Whitman, who revered the body and soul as one and who famously loved all with equal ardor. It depicts the experiences of an artist described in a line from Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”: “I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul.”
Scenes from Whitman’s life include watching youngsters at play, and tending to the afflicted just as the poet nursed wounded soldiers during the Civil War. After his own mortality is foretold, the poet bids poignant farewell to those who love him. He is then embraced by a benevolent feminine spirit with “the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.”

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