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• Paul Taylor interview: 'In a dance, I set up problems to solve'

  30-08-2018 20:47
  Taylor, who has died aged 88, influenced everyone from Mark Morris to Twyla Tharp. Judith Mackrell spoke to the choreographer in November 2000What are the advantages of being Paul Taylor and ageing into one of the world’s most venerated choreographers? Having a “spiffy” development director called Darcy, maybe, who forces you into a new designer suit when your old one has grown too ancient to take another curtain call. Or being so famous that the Queen inadvertently suffers you
  
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• Paul Taylor, celebrated dancer and choreographer, dies aged 88

  30-08-2018 20:28
  Taylor, a dancer who later became one of the world’s greatest choreographers, was seen as the last of the 20th century’s titans of modern danceThe renowned dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor has died at the age of 88 due to renal failure, according to Lisa Labrado, a spokeswoman for the Paul Taylor Dance Company.A 1992 honoree at Kennedy Center Honors and, a year later, a recipient of the National Medal of Arts by former president Bill Clinton, Taylor was a giant of American dance,
  
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• Celebrated dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor dies aged 88

  30-08-2018 18:42
  Taylor, a dancer who later became one of the world’s greatest choreographers, was seen as the last of the 20th century’s titans of modern danceThe renowned dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor has died at the age of 88 due to renal failure, according to Lisa Labrado, a spokeswoman for the Paul Taylor Dance Company.A 1992 honoree at Kennedy Center Honors and, a year later, a recipient of the National Medal of Arts by former president Bill Clinton, Taylor was a giant of American dance,
  
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• Sylvia: the suffragettes giving musicals a kick in the ballots

  30-08-2018 07:00
  It sets history to hip-hop and has a diverse cast – but Sylvia is not riding on the coattails of Hamilton, says its director Kate Prince. Instead its heroine marches to a beat all her own When, in 1904, suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney gatecrashed a Liberal party meeting in Manchester to protest their right to vote, they probably didn’t do it to a hip-hop beat. But the scene playing out in a south London rehearsal room shows just that. Bouncing about the stage, the
  
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• Sylvia: the suffragette giving musicals a kick in the ballots

  30-08-2018 07:00
  It sets history to hip-hop and has a diverse cast – but Sylvia is not riding on the coattails of Hamilton, says its director Kate Prince. Instead its heroine marches to a beat all her ownWhen, in 1904, suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney gatecrashed a Liberal party meeting in Manchester to protest their right to vote, they probably didn’t do it to a hip-hop beat. But the scene playing out in a south London rehearsal room shows just that. Bouncing about the stage, the w
  
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