Park and “Bark”
Taylor Mac isn’t known for being short-winded.
3 pieces since 2018 — at 1 company, most often at Opera Lafayette.
Taylor Mac isn’t known for being short-winded.
In French opera—until Pelleas et Mélisande anyway—there is always a great deal of dance; often, dance rather than song is the main event.
A very particular tension—between angry political resistance and gloriously sex-positive, buoyantly confidant celebration of queerness—fuels the immense energy of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Hour Decade History of Popular Music.
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