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Dance has been called 'history written on the body,' and Taylor's piece made this abstract truth utterly tangible. - EXPLOREDANCE.COM 2007

... a quintet of luscious dancers from the locally based JazzAntiqua, whose artistic director Pat Taylor, provided sex, soul and style to choreography that not only dazzled but also embodied the music with primal ooze. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 2006

Taylor skillfully matched the solo flights and background rhythms of music by Miles Davis with bits of dancer attitude. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 2006

Quiet moments of purity, expression... - LOS ANGELES TIMES 2005

Elegant costuming enhanced the beauty of Pat Taylor's "Celestial Blues," as nine members of the JazzAntiqua Dance & Music Ensemble punctuated their moves with power and polish. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 2005

Pat Taylor took that feeling and heightened it in the powerful excerpts from her "A Love Supreme," danced with equal parts emotion and virtuosity by her locally based JazzAntiqua Dance & Music Ensemble. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 2003

Taylor imaginatively mixed African and modern dance influences, allowing for an exquisitely modulated performance. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 1999

Evocative, graceful and bubbling with rich, jazzy textures, Shelby and Taylor are a collaborative force whose shared vision is a gift... - LOS ANGELES TIMES 1997

Poignancy, inventiveness and hard-core truths were infused in both music and dance, as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre vibrated to an incomparable beat. - LA TIMES 1997

...a few troupes like JazzAntiqua are premised on live music, with the interaction and ongoing relationship between the dancers and a music ensemble a defining element of their brand of dance. - LOS ANGELES WEEKLY 1996

JazzAntiqua's "Odysseus Suite"... achieves genuine stature: the richness of one epic odyssey superimposed on another. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 1996

Performed with a three-piece jazz ensemble, Taylor's easy-does-it jazz vocabulary and the dancer's solid performances make this piece a real winner. - LONG BEACH TELEGRAM 1995

... Shelby embodies the modern jazz musician: young, educated, articulate, and serious about the music and life. - BUZZ MAGAZINE 1994

Excellent live music and dancing that matches it in verve, rhythmic complexity and free-form invention: a proven concept, here distinctively reshaped. - LOS ANGELES TIMES 1993