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Biography
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Susan McGuire
SUSAN McGUIRE, Director of Taylor 2 and the Taylor School, was a principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1977 to 1988, and served as rehearsal director in 1989. She created roles in Taylor's Dust, Airs, Roses and Last Look, among other works. Prior to joining the Taylor Company, Ms. McGuire danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company from 1973 to 1976. She has been on the faculties of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, the Paul Taylor School, the summer programs at Jacob's Pillow and Juilliard, and the American Dance Festival. In 1989 and 1990 she held the Sage Cowels Land Grant Chair in Dance at the University of Minnesota. Ms. McGuire was Artistic Head of London Contemporary Dance School from 1991 to 1998. She has revived or reconstructed Paul Taylor's work for American Ballet Theatre, the Gulbenkian Ballet of Portugal, the Rambert Dance Company of England, and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, as well as several universities. She has lectured on the training of the professional dancer at The The Healthier Dancer conference sponsored by Dance U.K., and on Paul Taylor's work at the international conference Preservation Politics at the Roehampton Institute in London. Ms. McGuire was Director of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and a Rehearsal Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company from January through June, 2000. She was appointed to her current positions with the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation in August, 2000.
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