Paul Taylor Dance
A Benefit Performance Under the Stars
Saturday, September 19
pequot summer stage | A New Tradition Begins
Performance begins at 7:00p.m.
This summer, Pequot Library launches the inaugural Pequot Summer Stage, a new annual outdoor performing arts tradition on the Great Lawn in Southport. For our opening evening, we welcome the internationally acclaimed Paul Taylor Dance Company, one of America’s most celebrated modern dance companies, for an extraordinary performance beneath the open sky. As twilight settles over the lawn and the library’s century-old stone façade glows in the September dusk, this remarkable historic setting becomes an outdoor stage unlike any other in Connecticut, a place where artistic excellence, architectural beauty, and community come together in a way that can only happen at Pequot Library.
Whether you join us from the elevation of the VIP Raised Platform, take your seat in the Champagne Circle close to the stage, or gather with friends on the Community Lawn, every guest becomes part of the first chapter of a tradition that will inspire generations to come. Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
Curate your experience with the Paul Taylor Dance Company on Pequot Library’s Great Lawn. Explore six ways to experience the inaugural Pequot Summer Stage to the right; purchase your tickets below.
Founding Artistic Visionary • $5,000
A leadership commitment to a new cultural tradition at Pequot Library. Become one of the founding supporters of the inaugural Pequot Summer Stage. Your partnership helps bring one of the world’s great dance companies to our community while establishing a tradition that will endure for generations.
Includes: Four VIP Raised Platform tickets · All VIP benefits · Exclusive Founders’ welcome · Named recognition in program, signage, and website · Commemorative keepsake
Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
Founding Underwriting Partner • $2,500
A philanthropic commitment to a new cultural tradition. Become one of the founding supporters of the inaugural Pequot Summer Stage. Your partnership helps bring one of the world’s great dance companies to our community while establishing a tradition that will endure for generations.
Includes: Two VIP Raised Platform tickets · All VIP benefits · Exclusive Founders’ welcome · Named recognition in program, signage, and website · Commemorative keepsake
Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
VIP Raised Platform • $500 each
The finest sightline of the evening. Take your seat on the elevated platform at the rear of the Great Lawn, above the audience, with an unobstructed panoramic view of the stage and the full sweep of the lawn. Stay after for an exclusive post-show reception with the dancers.
Includes: Elevated rear platform seating · Pre-performance champagne reception · Post-show reception with Company · Artistic Director remarks · Reserved parking · Priority entry
Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
Champagne Circle • $350 each
Begin the evening with a glass of champagne and an introduction to the program from the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Artistic Director, then settle into your priority front-lawn seat close to the stage for an extraordinary evening of dance.
Includes: Priority front-lawn seating · Pre-performance champagne reception · Artistic Director introduction · Priority entry · Performance program
Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
Preferred Lawn • $175 each
Reserved, comfortable, and beautifully positioned in the heart of the Great Lawn with excellent sightlines — the ideal place to experience one of America’s great dance companies under the September sky.
Includes: Mid-lawn seating · Excellent sightlines · Performance program
Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
General Lawn • $100 each
The Pequot Summer Stage belongs to the whole community. Reserved chair seating, a clear view of the stage, and an unforgettable summer evening, priced to be within reach of everyone who wants to be here. Bring a friend. Invite a neighbor. Make a memory.
Includes: General lawn seating · Full performance access · Performance program · Food and beverage access
Please note: all seating levels include chairs.
Purchase Your Tickets
Tickets are limited and non-refundable. Rain date: Sept. 20 at 3:00 p.m. Pequot Library is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that relies on public support for funding. Contributions to Pequot Library are tax-deductible.
Sneak Peek
Brandenburgs
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Brandenburgs (1988)
Elegant and virtuosic, this is choreographic grandeur at its finest married flawlessly within the joyous atmosphere of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.
Company B
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Company B (1991)
In a seminal piece of Americana, Paul Taylor recalls the turbulent era of 1940s American history at the dawn of WWII through the hit songs of the Andrews Sisters.
About the Paul Taylor Dance Company
To open the inaugural Pequot Summer Stage, Pequot Library is proud to host the Paul Taylor Dance Company, one of the most celebrated and enduring institutions in American modern dance and a company whose work is at once intellectually serious, emotionally powerful, and utterly accessible to audiences encountering it for the first time.
Founded by the legendary choreographer Paul Taylor in 1954, the company has spent seven decades at the forefront of American dance, creating and performing a body of work that ranges from the lyrical and joyful to the darkly theatrical. Taylor’s choreography is distinguished by its humanity, its humor, its connection to music, and its extraordinary physical intelligence.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company performs a repertoire of more than 140 works and tours internationally to critical and popular acclaim. Their presence on the Great Lawn on September 19 is not simply a performance; it is a statement about the caliber of artistic experience that Pequot Library intends to offer its community.
Sponsorship Opportunities
become part of the first chapter
Sponsorships for Pequot Summer Stage are strictly limited and available on a first-confirmed basis. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss partnership at any level and to explore how we can best represent your organization in connection with this extraordinary evening.
The Liberty Circle • $25,000
Presenting Sponsor | Exclusive
One opportunity available: The defining partnership, a rare and exclusive opportunity to stand alongside one of America’s great dance companies as the presenting force behind Pequot Library’s most significant cultural evening of the year. Benefits include 10 VIP tickets and 10 post-show dinner seats.
the founders circle • $10,000
lead sponsor
Four opportunities available: A founding partnership in the inaugural Pequot Summer Stage. Founders Circle sponsors are among the handful of organizations whose generosity makes this extraordinary evening possible. Benefits include 8 VIP tickets and 8 post-show dinner seats.
the artistic visionary circle • $5,000
Sponsor
Four opportunities available: An Artistic Visionary Circle partnership connects your organization to one of the most celebrated evenings in Pequot Library history—an evening at the intersection of dance, history, and community. Benefits include: 4 VIP tickets and 4 post-show dinner seats.
the patron circle • $2,500
supporting sponsor
Four opportunities available: Patron Circle supporters play an essential role in making Pequot Summer Stage accessible to the full Southport community and receive two VIP tickets to the finest outdoor performance in Fairfield County this year. Benefits include: 2 VIP tickets and the champagne reception.
To confirm your partnership or for further information, please contact development@pequotlibrary.org.
Sponsors
Thank you for your generosity!
