Paul Taylor (choreographer)
Paul Taylor (born July 29, 1930) is widely considered to be one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century.
Paul Taylor is among the last living members of the second generation of America’s modern dance artists. He has continued to win acclaim for his recent creations as well as stagings of his earlier works. As prolific as ever, he may propel his dancers through space for the sheer beauty of it, or use them to wordlessly illuminate war, spirituality, sexuality, morality and mortality. If, as Balanchine said, there are no mothers-in-law in ballet, there certainly are dysfunctional families, disillusioned idealists, imperfect religious leaders, angels and insects in Taylor's dances.
In the 1950s, when Taylor’s work was so cutting-edge that it often sent confused audience members flocking to the exits, Martha Graham dubbed him the "naughty boy" of dance. In the 1960s he shocked the cognoscenti by setting his trailblazing modern movement to music composed 200 years earlier, and he inflamed the establishment by lampooning America’s most treasured icons. In the 1970s he put incest center stage and revealed the primitive nature lurking just below men's and women’s sophisticated veneer. In the 1980s he looked unflinchingly at marital rape and intimacy among men at war. In the 1990s he warned against religious zealotry and blind conformity to authority. In the first decade of the new millennium he condemned American imperialism, poked fun at feminism and looked death square in the face. And yet, while his work has largely been iconoclastic, Taylor has also made some of the most purely romantic, most astonishingly athletic, and downright funniest dances ever put on stage.
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Paul Taylor (DJ)
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Paul Taylor (born 5 August 1957) is a British techno and house DJ, whose career began in 1974.
Early life
Paul was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, moving to Burnley, Lancashire at the age of 13 where he attended Burnley Grammar School, and later Blackpool College studying Graphic design.
Career
Angels
Paul got offered his first job as a DJ at age 16 in 1974 at the (recently opened) Angels in Burnley. In 1989, along with business partner Steve Farkas he took ownership of Angels.
Vision Masters
Under the name Vision Masters, Paul and Danny Hibrid (and Tony King) released Keep On Pumpin' It in 1991 featuring vocals from Kylie Minogue.
Loveland
Paul along Paul Waterman and Mark Hadfield and vocalist Rachel McFarlane, formed the disco-house combo Loveland in the early 1990s. Tracks such as "Let the Music (Lift You Up)", "Don't Make Me Wait", "I Need Somebody" and "The Wonder Of Love", increased the group's fame during 1994-95.
Retro
Paul Taylor (cricketer, born 1964)
Paul Taylor (born Jonathan Paul Taylor, 8 August 1964, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England) is an English former cricketer, who played in two Tests and one ODI for England from 1993 to 1994.
Life and career
He began his career at Derbyshire but, unable to cement a regular place in the side, was released in 1987. He went on to play Minor County cricket for Staffordshire and so impressed Northants during a NatWest Trophy tie in 1990, despite conceding 92 runs in his stint, that he was engaged for the 1991 season. His rebirth in county cricket proved so productive that he was picked to tour India, although he suffered with the rest of England's bowling attack in the defeat in Calcutta. He played one more Test, against New Zealand in 1994 but, despite bowling tidily and blocking out the last half hour to save the game in partnership with Steve Rhodes, was not picked for England again.
He remained a consistent wicket-taker through the 1990s, renowned for his fitness and the accuracy of his left arm seamers. In eleven seasons he took over 500 first-class wickets for Northamptonshire, until his release in 2001.
