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Paul Taylor (choreographer)
American choreographer (–)
This article is about the choreographer. For other persons of the same name, see Paul Taylor (disambiguation).
Paul Belville Taylor Jr. (July 29, – August 29, ) was an American dancer and choreographer.
He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists.[1] He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in in New York City.
Early life and education
Taylor was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Paul Belville Taylor Sr., a physicist,[2] and to the former Elizabeth Rust Pendleton.[3] He grew up in and around Washington, DC.
By his teens, he had grown to more than six feet in height.
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Taylor attended Virginia Episcopal School. He was a student of painting and swam and competed on the swim team, for which he was the recipient of a swimming scholarship, at Syracuse University in the late s. Upon discovering dance through books at the school library, Tay