Paul Taylor (July 29, 1930 – August 29, 2018) was an American dancer and choreographer. He was among the last living members of the third generation of America’s modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New York City. Taylor was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Paul Belville Taylor Sr., a physicist, and to the former Elizabeth Rust Pendleton. He grew up in and around Washington, DC. By his teens, he had grown to more than six feet in height. He was a swimmer and student of painting at Syracuse University in the late 1940s. Upon discovering dance through books at the school library, he transferred to Juilliard, where he earned a B.S. degree in dance in 1953 under director Martha Hill… (wikipedia.org)
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