Paul Taylor Dance Company. Nueva York, 1963, 1964 y 1965.

Set of three vintage gelatin silver prints -measures: 35.5 x 28 cm / 13.97 x 11.02 in-, all with a label attached to the back, with the title in Spanish, and one of them with the intervention on the negative "Jack Mitchell New York". Restored copy.

Records of three works created by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, it is Scudorama, from 1963, with music by Clarence Jackson. In his autobiography, Paul Taylor called Scudorama a "dance of death leavened with light touches." The play was created when Americans were still prisoners of nuclear fear after the Cuban missile crisis. Taylor, in tune with the anxiety of the time, expressed these unresolved tensions in the dance with a note in the play that quotes Dante: “What souls are these that run through this black haze? ... These are the almost heartless whose lives ended neither blame nor praise”.

Duet continues, performed by Elizabeth Walton and Dan Wagoner, with music by Joseph Haydn, released in 1964. The third photograph refers to the 1965 play From sea to shining sea. Christine Temin wrote for its premiere at the Boston Globe: "Yes America had a proper artistic policy, Paul Taylor would be declared a national treasure…” From sea to shining sea, he has “a mischievous and satirical take on Lady Liberty and the other symbols of America ranging from Superman to the KKK ... darkly fun"- we continue with the quoted text from Temin.

Paul Belville Taylor (Pennsylvania, 1930 - Manhattan, 2018) was an American dancer, choreographer and director. He trained at the Juilliard School where he had great teachers such as Doris Humphrey, Margaret Craske, Martha Graham, José Limón, Merce Cunningham and Antony Tudor. He danced in the companies of Cunningham (1953-54), Pearl Lang (1955) and Graham (1955-62), in the latter he premiered the role of Aegisthus in Clytemnestra (1958), Hercules in Alcestis (1960), the ballet Acrobats of God (1960) and Theseus in Phaedra (1962). He was also a dancer with the New York City Ballet, where he premiered Episodes (1959) by Balanchine and Graham. In 1954 he founded the company that bears his name, with which he premiered numerous works.

Jack Mitchell (Florida, 1925-2013) was an American photographer. He portrayed great American artists, dancers, actors and film and theater directors, musicians, and writers, such as Truman Capote, Meryl Streep, Alfred Hitchcock, Leonard Bernstein, Andy Walhol, and John Lennon, among others. His ability to portray, illuminate and capture dancers in what he called "still images in motion" made him one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th century. He was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater for a decade. His work appeared in major newspapers and magazines, including more than 160 Dance Magazine covers. Arts Magazine called him the first photographer to treat creative people as characters outside of his works. The Smithsonian called it the benchmark against which other dance photographers evaluated his own work.