Paul Taylor Dance CompanyNew York, NY -- The Paul Taylor Dance Company, the only Company to bring modern dance to Lincoln Center each Season since 2012, will return to the David H. Koch Theater for three weeks, November 4-23, 2025. The repertoire features classics by Paul Taylor that display his extraordinary range, from romantic to humorous and from poignant to controversial. The repertoire also includes World Premieres by Resident Choreographers Lauren Lovette and Robert Battle that are the direct result of 2024’s Taylor Future Dance Initiative to develop outstanding dance makers. Hope Boykin’s How Love Sounds will have its New York Premiere, and Jody Sperling’s Vive La Loïe! will return for the second Season in a row.

“This year’s Lincoln Center engagement includes timeless Taylor masterworks that form our enduring legacy,” Artistic Director Michael Novak said of the Season he curated, “and important new works by some of today’s leading choreographers, representing a bold future for modern dance. It was critically important to Paul that our Company continue to flourish well into the future with new works alongside his own. I’m thrilled that Lauren and Robert are part of our creative team and have the opportunity to work with our world-class dancers.”

As it has for all Taylor Lincoln Center performances since 2015, Orchestra of St. Luke’s will perform live, led by Taylor Music Director David LaMarche. The Season also features soprano Devon Guthrie and St. George’s Choral Society. Tickets to the Season are on sale, with prices starting at $10, at www.boxoffice.dance.

Resident Choreographer Lauren Lovette will present her seventh World Premiere for the Company, stim, set to John Adams’s Fearful Symmetries. Robert Battle, in his first creation as Resident Choreographer, will present Under the Rhythm, a high-energy work set to a vibrant mix of jazz, gospel, and swing influences, with music of Ella Fitzgerald, Wycliffe Gordon, Mahalia Jackson, and Steve Reich. Hope Boykin’s How Love Sounds will have its New York premiere. It was commissioned by Stephen Kroll Reidy and made possible by supporters of The Dancemaker Fund, and co-commissioned by the Kennedy Center. The work, developed with support from the Kennedy Center’s Social Impact Office Hours residency program, features music by Antonín Dvořák, and songs sung by Patsy Cline, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Donna Summer.

Paul Taylor’s masterworks anchor the repertoire, from such timeless audience favorites as Esplanade and Company B to the rarely seen treasure, Speaking in Tongues, a meditation on American religious extremism that won an Emmy Award for its television broadcast. Other Season highlights include the return of Taylor’s Walt Whitman-inspired Beloved Renegade, Cascade, Diggity, Gossamer Gallants, Offenbach Overtures, Scudorama, Troilus and Cressida (reduced), and Concertiana, the last of Taylor’s 147 dances. The Season also includes Lovette’s SOLITAIRE, Jody Sperling’s Vive La Loïe!, and the Company Premiere of Battle’s Takademe.

On November 11, the Company’s Gala Performance honors legendary American painter Alex Katz, whose bold visual worlds illuminated the stage in 16 collaborations with Paul Taylor. The evening’s program — Sunset, a Taylor masterwork created in collaboration with Katz, and World Premieres by Lovette and Battle — becomes both tribute and toast: a salute to the enduring power of artistic partnership and a dazzling look at the Company’s next chapter.


Expanding Access
The Season continues PTDC’s commitment to welcoming audiences through a range of initiatives:

  • Opening Night (Nov 4) – Every seat $10, made possible by Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown.
  • $20 Under 40 – Anyone 40 and under can purchase $20 tickets with free online registration.
  • Family Express (Nov 15 & 22) – Two family-friendly matinees featuring 75-minute no-intermission programs for audiences of all ages.
  • John and Jody Arnhold Tier 3 Dance Education & Audience Education Initiative – 10th Anniversary – Celebrating a decade of impact, this landmark program has welcomed more than 30,000 public-school students, teachers, and caregivers to the Koch Theater. In partnership with the Taylor Center for Dance Education, it continues to provide free tickets and introduce thousands of young people to the transformative power of modern dance each year.
  • Polaris Project  – Partnerships with community organizations, schools, and universities offer free/low-cost tickets, educational resources, workshops, and Q&As to deepen engagement with modern dance.

2025 Season Calendar
All performances at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center.
All choreography by Paul Taylor unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, November 4, 7 p.m.

  • Concertiana
  • How Love Sounds (Boykin) New York Premiere
  • Cascade

Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m.

  • Troilus and Cressida (reduced)
  • Takademe (Battle) Company Premiere
  • Scudorama
  • Esplanade

Thursday, November 6, 7 p.m.

  • Speaking in Tongues
  • How Love Sounds (Boykin) New York Premiere

Friday, November 7, 8 p.m.

  • Company B
  • Scudorama
  • Diggity

Saturday, November 8, 2 p.m.

  • Concertiana
  • Cascade
  • Offenbach Overtures

Saturday, November 8, 8 p.m.

  • Troilus and Cressida (reduced)
  • Takademe (Battle) Company Premiere
  • Company B
  • Esplanade

Sunday, November 9, 3 p.m.

  • Speaking in Tongues
  • Offenbach Overtures

Tuesday, November 11, 7 p.m. — Gala Performance
Honoring Alex Katz

  • Sunset
  • stim (Lovette) World Premiere
  • Under the Rhythm (Battle) World Premiere

Wednesday, November 12, 7 p.m.

  • Vive La Loïe! (Sperling)
  • Takademe (Battle)
  • SOLITAIRE (Lovette)
  • Company B

Thursday, November 13, 7 p.m.

  • Sunset
  • Under the Rhythm (Battle) World Premiere
  • Beloved Renegade

Friday, November 14, 8 p.m.

  • Speaking in Tongues
  • Gossamer Gallants

Saturday, November 15, 2 p.m. — Family Express

  • Troilus and Cressida (reduced)
  • Vive La Loïe! (Sperling)
  • Diggity

Saturday, November 15, 8 p.m.

  • DiggityHow Love Sounds (Boykin) New York Premiere
  • Esplanade

Tuesday, November 18, 7 p.m.

  • SOLITAIRE (Lovette)
  • Scudorama
  • Beloved Renegade

Wednesday, November 19, 7 p.m.

  • Scudorama
  • Sunset
  • Esplanade

Thursday, November 20, 7 p.m.

  • Concertiana
  • stim (Lovette) World Premiere
  • Cascade

Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

  • SOLITAIRE (Lovette)
  • Under the Rhythm (Battle) World Premiere
  • Gossamer Gallants

Saturday, November 22, 2 p.m. — Family Express

  • Gossamer Gallants
  • Esplanade

Saturday, November 22, 8 p.m.

  • stim (Lovette) World Premiere
  • Vive La Loïe! (Sperling)
  • Takademe (Battle) Company Premiere
  • Beloved Renegade

Sunday, November 23, 3 p.m.

  • Cascade
  • Sunset
  • Offenbach Overtures

For more information and full Season details, visit paultaylordance.org. Follow us at @paultaylordance.

Leadership funding provided by Stephen Kroll Reidy. Major support provided by The SHS Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and an anonymous donor. Lincoln Center Season sponsorship support provided by Baron Capital Group, Inc. Additional major funding provided by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Paul Taylor Dance Company gratefully acknowledges the estates of Harlan Morse Blake and Mary J. Osborn for their transformational gifts.

Robert Battle became Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in July 2011 after being personally selected by Judith Jamison. In 2023, he stepped down from his position after 12 years. He was a frequent choreographer and artist in residence at Ailey since 1999. His works are part of the Company’s repertory, such as Ella, For Four, In/Side, Love Stories finale, Mass, and Unfold. Battle also expanded the Ailey repertory with works by artists such as Kyle Abraham, Mauro Bigonzetti, Ronald K. Brown, Rennie Harris, and Paul Taylor and instituted the New Directions Choreography Lab. His journey in the modern dance world began in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida. He trained at Miami’s New World School of the Arts and The Juilliard School, where he met his mentor, celebrated Taylor alumna and acclaimed educator Carolyn Adams. Battle danced with Parsons Dance from 1994 to 2001 and founded his own Battleworks Dance Company in 2002. He has received several prestigious awards and honorary doctorates and is a sought-after keynote speaker.

Hope Boykin, a two-time “Bessie Award” winner, from Durham, NC, is an educator, creator, mover, and motivator. She’s created works for many companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, Ballet Black of London, Ballet X, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Philadanco, The Philadelphia Ballet, and HopeBoykinDance.

Through HopeBoykinDance, she shared an evening of works at 92NY, Chelsea Factory and Works & Process. Hope earned a NY Emmy nomination, for “Beauty Size & Color,” a short film now on PBS.org. She was featured on the October 2023 cover of Dance Magazine and premiered “States Of Hope” at The Joyce Theater to great acclaim.

Hope is founder and director of HBArts Collective, Artist-In-Residence at USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, Artistic Advisor for Dance Education for the Kennedy Center, Director of Kennedy Center Dance Lab, and Adjunct Professor at Howard University.

Hope believes there are no limits.

Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) was a visionary artist with an expansive legacy. She forged an innovative dance form by crafting mesmerizing, multimedia spectacles out of fabric, motion, lighting, and projections. An American by birth, Fuller catapulted to international celebrity with her Paris debut at Folies Bergère in 1892. For decades following, her multifaceted dances captivated the public, as well as the cultural, intellectual, and social elites. Depicted by dozens of artists across media, Fuller became both a subject of and influential in such artistic movements as Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Cubism, and Futurism. Importantly, she is considered the first modern dancer, with her success helping to pave the way for Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis. Fuller’s innovative stagecraft also anticipated the birth of cinema and today’s digital and interactive performance technologies.

Maestro David LaMarche has been working as a conductor in the dance field for more than thirty-eight years.  He served as Music Director for the Dance Theatre of Harlem from 1993 to 1998 and conducted many of the company’s premieres. In addition, he composed and arranged several scores for the repertory.  As a guest, he has conducted for New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Houston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Limón Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, L’Opera di Roma, Het National Ballet and Ballet West. The orchestras he has directed include the Houston Symphony, the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago, the Pacific Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Paris Opera Orchestra, the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Moscow Radio Orchestra, the Tivoli Festival Orchestra, and the Orchestre Lamoreux. Maestro LaMarche is currently in his twenty-third year on the staff of American Ballet Theatre.  He is a Guest Faculty Member of The Juilliard School and a regular contributor to the New York Concert Review.

Lauren Lovette is the first Resident Choreographer selected by Taylor Artistic Director Michael Novak for the Taylor Company. As a principal dancer at New York City Ballet, Lovette choreographed for the 2016 Fall Fashion Gala. She was awarded the Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU in 2018, and a year later created a second work for the Fashion Gala. In addition to Paul Taylor and NYC Ballet, her work has been commissioned and performed by American Ballet Theatre, Vail International Dance showcased in a self-produced evening, Why It Matters. Lovette received the Clive Barnes Award for da​​nce in December 2012 and was the 2012-2013 recipient of the City Ballet Janice Levin Award. In 2021, she stepped down from her position there to embark on a career devoted to more equal measures. In 2023, Lovette joined the Nantucket Dance Festival as Co-Artistic Director.

Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) is an independent orchestra and performing arts organization based in New York City. Founded in 1974 as St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and expanded into an Orchestra in 1979, OSL has become a “mainstay of New York’s classical scene” (New Yorker). Today, OSL appears throughout the season at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie, a celebrated specialist in 18th-century music. OSL performs and produces in a variety of formats, including three signature concert series curated expressly for each of Carnegie Hall’s iconic venues, programs focused on contemporary composers presented throughout the five boroughs, collaborations with Paul Taylor Dance Company at Lincoln Center, a composition institute, and much more. The orchestra has commissioned more than 50 new works and has given more than 175 world, U.S., and New York City premieres, while also participating in 118 recordings, four of which have been recognized with Grammy Awards. OSL’s education and community engagement programs bring classical music learning and inspiration to tens of thousands of students and families each year through school-time and community concerts and the over 100-student strong Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In 2011, OSL opened The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City’s only rehearsal, recording, and performance space expressly dedicated to classical music, serving thousands of local and international musicians each year. 

Jody Sperling is a dancer-choreographer and the Founder/Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance. She has created more than 50 works, many of which further the art of Loïe Fuller. Notably, Sperling has expanded Fuller’s genre into experimental and environmental contexts for stage, screen, and site. In 2014, she participated in a polar science mission—as resident artist aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker—and danced á la Fuller on Arctic sea ice. She earned a World Choreography Award nomination for her work on the French feature film “La Danseuse” (Dir. Stephanie Digiusto) based on Fuller’s life. Sperling’s work and company are also featured in the Fuller documentary “Obsessed with Light” (Dirs. Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum) In recent years, Sperling’s has focused on engaging with climate change and developing ecokinetics, a practice cultivating the relationship between human movers and ecological systems. Sperling is currently Eco-Artist-in-Residence at the New York Society of Ethical Culture.

Paul Taylor (1930-2018) was one of the most accomplished artists this nation has ever produced. He established the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954, serving as both a virtuoso performer and a trailblazing choreographer until 1974, when he turned exclusively to choreography. During his 64-year career as a dance maker, Mr. Taylor helped define and shape the home-grown American art of modern dance through a matchless repertoire of 147 works with an extraordinary range of subject matter. Mr. Taylor won public and critical acclaim for the vibrancy, relevance, and power of his dances, offering cogent observations on life’s complexities while tackling some of society’s thorniest issues.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company is one of the world’s leading dance organizations, based in New York City and with a vast international reach. Under the artistic direction of Michael Novak, together with world-class dancers, choreographers, educators, and creatives, the Company continues to innovate and transform the landscape of 21st-century dance performance and education. The Taylor Company was founded in 1954 by cultural icon Paul Taylor (1930-2018), one of America’s most celebrated artists, who molded it into one of the pre-eminent performing ensembles in the world, driven by a belief that dance can convey complex truths about the human experience.

The hallmark of the Company is the brilliance of its ever-expanding repertory. Of the 170 dances that exist within the canon (147 choreographed by Paul Taylor), many are hailed as some of the greatest dances of the 20th and 21st centuries. While celebrating these masterworks of the past, the Company simultaneously invests heavily in the future of the art form. Through the Taylor Future Dance Initiative, Michael Novak appointed Lauren Lovette in 2022 as the Company’s first Resident Choreographer and, in 2025, welcomed Robert Battle as a Resident Choreographer. Together, along with other diverse contemporary voices, they are generating a collection of new works that expand conversations about what modern dance is and what it can become. The Company hosts its annual Season at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with its partner, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, bringing the finest repertory to audiences on a scale rare for the art form.

Dedicated to sharing dance and education with the broadest possible audience, the Taylor Company sustains a global presence through its robust touring programs, both domestically and internationally. Since its first European tour in 1960, the Company has performed in more than 600 cities in 66 countries, representing the United States at arts festivals and touring extensively under the aegis of the U.S. Department of State.

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High-resolution photos are available for download here: 2025 Taylor Season Photos.