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QUOTES “…Sankofa choreographed by Pat
Taylor and marvelously performed by her JazzAntiqua Dance Ensemble. Peppered with soaring jumps, solid unisons and pulsating
solos, duets and trios, this work proved both wistful and inspiring.” - LOS ANGELES
TIMES 2008
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.”
[Here & Now: The Legacy of Luther Vandross] - 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
“Poignancy, inventiveness and hard-core truths were infused in both music
and dance, as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre vibrated to an incomparable beat.” - LOS ANGELES
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
"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
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