Night + Day

Tuesday
June 2
Taylor Made American modern dance icon Paul Taylor wraps up a weeklong series of free dance concerts with some of the better local experimental companies at the Bay Area Dance Festival. The inaugural concert, the first of six, begins today at 12:30 p.m. with Jess Curtis and Gravity in Atrophy, an exploration of love and loss, and Annie Rosenthal and Company in Ruins, which, compatibly, muses on innocence and experience. The series continues with Theater Flamenco of San Francisco and Yaelisa & Solera Flamenco Dance Company 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, the AWD Performance Band and Torque 12:30 p.m. Thursday, and Robert Moses' Kin, Company Chaddick, and Erica Essner Performance Co-op 12:30 p.m. Friday. The series' only evening show, at 8 p.m. Saturday, takes advantage of dusk to show off Steamroller's Monster Trucks piece and the 300-pound block of ice central to Core's Ice/Car/Cage Experiment. Taylor, whose own long years of experimentation have yielded tuxedoed men sailing debonairly through space, the anthropologic Profiles recently performed in Berkeley by the White Oak Dance Project, and a smoldering tango redux, is bringing the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, his company of up-and-comers, to the city for a 12-month residency. The PTDC will perform said tango number Piazzolla Caldera along with repertory works A Field of Grass, Profiles, and Mercuric Tidings 2 p.m. Sunday. All shows are held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission (at Third Street), S.F. Admission is free; call 978-