This film covers a year in the life of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, featuring: the creation of a new dance; endless rehearsals; funding the company; touring India; and finally opening the company’s New York season.

Dancemaker shows dance as a collaborative art. It highlights the cooperating, yet in some measure opposing, forces which are harnessed to make a dance company: art & money; dancers & choreographers; dancers & management; the limits of the human body & the demands of the art; and passion & practicality. Mr. Taylor, the dancers, and the company manager talk intimately about their lives and their work.