Paul Taylor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Taylor
Occupation	Dancer
Date Of Birth	Jul 29, 1930(1930-07-29)
Age	94
Date Of Death	1992, Melbourne, Australia
Birthplace	Wilkinsburg
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Leo

Paul Taylor Biography

Paul Taylor is one of the most popular and richest Dancer who was born on July 29, 1930 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Renowned twentieth-century American choreographer and founder of the acclaimed Paul Taylor Dance Company. His more than fifty-year career resulted in great innovation in modern dance; he was particularly known for his classical music settings of contemporary choreography.

He set some of his choreography to music by classical composer Claude Debussy.

In 1981, Taylor founded the contemporary Australian art journal Art & Text. He curated the landmark exhibition ‘Popism’ in 1982 at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and, the following year, the smaller though equally significant ‘Tall Poppies’ at the University of Melbourne Gallery. In 1984, Taylor edited and published an anthology of criticism titled Anything Goes: Art in Australia 1970–1980. In the same year, Taylor invited Sydney theorist and critic Paul Foss to edit Art & Text when Taylor planned to move to New York. Taylor established himself there as an art journalist, writing for Vanity Fair, Interview, Parkett, Flash Art and The New York Times. In 1988, he curated the exhibition Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In 1992, Taylor returned to Melbourne, where he died from AIDS-related lymphoma.

Taylor’s journal Art & Text presented a new vision for Australian art that was grounded in the translation, interpretation and application of French poststructuralist theory to contemporary art. In 1983, issue 11 included the first English translation of Jean Baudrillard’s essay “The Precession of Simulacra”. Taylor maintained an enduring commitment to New Wave sub-culture and its subsequent theorisation by sociologists such as Dick Hebdige. Notably influential on Taylor’s thinking was Hebdige’s book 1979 book, Subculture: The Meaning of Style.

He was raised in Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

Paul Taylor Net Worth

Paul Taylor is one of the richest Dancer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Taylor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After briefly studying visual art at Syracuse University, he transferred to the dance program at the famed Juilliard School.

A groundbreaking choreographer, he was once dubbed the “Naughty Boy of Dance.”

Taylor was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) at Monash University, Melbourne in 1979, studying under Patrick McCaughey (founder of the Visual Arts department at Monash University) with fellow students including Jenepher Duncan and Jan Minchin.

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Facts & Trivia

Paul Ranked on the list of most popular Dancer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Paul Taylor celebrates birthday on July 29 of every year.

What was Paul Taylor technique?

As a choreographer, Taylor utilized a wide variety of movement styles, some of which he described as “flat” (two-dimensional in appearance), “dance scribbling” (emphasis on action rather than on shape or line), and “lyric” (“long arms”).

What was Paul Taylor known for?

Paul Taylor is considered by many to be the greatest living choreographer. “I get my energy, I think, from being afraid to choreograph, being afraid to fail.” In 1952, a 22-year old athlete with little training or experience won a work scholarship to the American Dance Festival.

Is Paul Taylor still alive?

August 29, 2018

What inspired Paul Taylor?

Taylor was known for his use of pedestrian movement in his modern dance, having learned from Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and other pioneers.

How does Paul Taylor define the environment?

He argued that humans are members of Earth’s community of life, that Earth’s ecosystems are a complex web of interconnected elements , that each individual organism, like each individual human, is a teleological (purposeful) centre of autonomous choice, and thus that each organism is an end in itself.