Taylor Stanley: "Mourner's Bench" from Southern Landscape

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Taylor Stanley

"Mourner's Bench" from Southern Landscape

As a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet since 2016, Taylor Stanley has worked with a variety of choreographers, achieving a breakout success (and winning a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance) with Kyle Abraham’s The Runaway in 2019. Jacob’s Pillow commissioned this full-evening program to support Stanley’s desire to explore movement interests outside of the classical realm, sponsoring three separate Pillow Lab residencies to help build the repertory (which also included Jodi Melnick’s These Five). This solo was selected to salute the Pillow’s 90th Anniversary and Talley Beatty’s own performance of the work, first presented here nearly 75 years earlier.

Recorded at Jacob’s Pillow: July 30, 2022
Choreography: Talley Beatty (1947)
Music: Traditional spiritual, "There is a Balm in Gilead"
Répétiteur: Kim Bears-Bailey

Taylor Stanley

"Mourner's Bench" from Southern Landscape

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Watch this full performance streaming on demand from March 6, 2023, through April 16, 2023.

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