保罗-泰勒舞团剧目介绍--《拜占庭》

　　《拜占庭》（1984）：

　　神秘莫测的音乐、气势磅礴的布景、宗教色彩的仪式、别出心裁的动作，保罗·泰勒在这个只有20分钟的现代舞中，再造了拜占庭这个14-15世纪经济、政治、文化超级大国的兴衰与枯荣。

　　In a dance with stunning movement invention, spectacular sets and a spiky score by the iconoclastic Edgar Varèse, Paul Taylor recalls the Byzantine Empire, an economic, political and cultural “superpower” whose thousand-year reign ended in the 15th Century. The dance begins with a quartet of holy figures performing a religious ceremony, after which a flagellant engages in repentance. With the passage of time, morality decays and, with the dancers staggering as if from an earthquake, the empire collapses – as empires often do.

　　“Taylor is revisiting the Dante circles of hell… A savage work, full of brutalized images, pictures of destruction and suggestions of decay. Taylor’s apocalyptic vision is gross and nasty, appallingly graphic, yet mightily effective in its fierce-etched power.” – Clive Barnes, New York Post