The Paul Taylor Dance Company has returned to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its annual fall season. Before last week’s gala performance began, artistic director Michael Novak spoke passionately about the importance of making and experiencing art during trying times and about the Company’s unwavering commitment to diversity. He closed his remarks by saying that he hoped the Company could be an example of “what modern dance can be and where modern dance needs to go.”

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The gala performance opened with the world premiere of resident choreographer Lauren Lovette’s Chaconne in Winter, dedicated to vice chair of the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation Board of Directors and founder of the Company’s Dancemaker Fund, Stephen Kroll Reidy.

The piece begins with three musicians (Charles Yang, Nicolas Kendall and Ranaan Meyer of the Grammy Award-winning Time for Three) clothed in sparkling black, standing on platforms against a black backdrop. As........

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