02693nam 2200505 450 991079053900332120230803021935.01-4804-1341-0(CKB)2550000001127859(EBL)1807777(MiAaPQ)EBC1807777(Au-PeEL)EBL1807777(CaONFJC)MIL528493(OCoLC)892245614(EXLCZ)99255000000112785920220517d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFacts and fancies essays written mostly for fun /Paul TaylorNew York, New York :Delphinium Books,[2013]©20131 online resource (195 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-97242-X Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Facts; Why I Make Dances; An Early Interview; Letters to Susie; The Redheaded Spiritualist; A Perplexing Situation; Boat Trip; Aureole; Martha Close Up; Clytemnestra; 911; Two Bozos Seen Through Glass: An Epiphany; The Strange Story of How I Chased...; Art; Fancies; Foreword to Private Domain; Reapplication to O.H.E.C.; How to Tell Ballet from Modern; In the Marceel Proust Suite of L''Hotel Continental; Fantasy About Joining the CIA; Death Wish; Tricks of the Trade; There is a Time; Limerick for Jennifer Tipton; The Last ThumpLove is a Dog from HellPoggie in the Quiet; The Shirley Temple Murders; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Michael, The Medium-sized Bee; My Dear Dogmatist; Acknowledgments; Copyright"No other dancer ever looked like Paul Taylor, that strapping, elastic, goofy hunk of a guy, and no one else's dance works look like his either-not the deep, dark ones or the zany ones or the uplifting ones. His vocabulary, his tone are unique and unmistakable. The same thing is true, it turns out, about his writing. His style is utterly his own, and like all real style it isn't a calculated voice but a reflection of the way his quirky mind works." -From the foreword by Robert Gottlieb "Taylor has not cultivated one writing persona, but has unleashed a raft of voices in a raft of forms: traDancersModern danceEssaysDancers.Modern dance.Essays.792.8028092Taylor Paul1930-2018,1497358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790539003321Facts and fancies3722440UNINA