Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bachsuites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday.
Set to excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Solo Suites for Cello, " the dance features what Mr. Taylor sometimes calls his "scribbles" of movement, as the cast's five women and three men ride wildly or serenely into, over and through Bach's sonorous accompaniment.