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Article: Paul Taylor's Contrast Craft
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- The Washington Post
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- March 12, 1993
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PAUL TAYLOR made his first dance while a college student in 1953,
before he had ever taken a dance class. Forty years and more than 40
awards and honors later (among them the 1992 Kennedy Center Honor for
lifetime achievement and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the so-
called genius award), Taylor is still at it. His work has always
pushed limits - technical, conceptual, musical. (He once deliberately
made a dance to the ugliest music he could find: elevator music. As
usual, it was a success.) He has always pushed himself.
"The more you do it, the more you find that there is to do," the
soft-spoken choreographer says from his Long Island retreat, where he
goes to work not on dances but ...