Performing Art – New York - NYC
Laurie M. Taylor is a dancer/choreographer based in New York City. She has performed in works by master artists such as Milton Myers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Helen Jones of the Toronto Dance Theater, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from Howard University, a Dance Minor and a Certificate of Dance Training from the Ballet Creole School of Performing Arts in Canada. Laurie has performed and toured extensively with Nicholas Leichter Dance, Urban Bush Women and Francine E.Ott/The Walk as well as having choreographed and performed with an array of music and dance artists from around the globe. Her choreographic essence focuses on musicality, spiritual and physical honesty and has led her to create works for Darin Atwater\'s \"Soulful Symphony,\" The Olatuja Project, Cool NY Dance Festival and many more. Following a series of residencies at New York University, University of Minnesota and Queens Borough College, she has begun sharing her knowledge of dance as an adjunct professor at Lehman College in New York this past fall. Laurie is also the CEO and Artistic Director of Soul Movement Productions, a dance company and arts consulting firm. As CEO of Soul Movement Productions (SMP), Laurie works tirelessly towards revamping and inspiring new models of self-produced contemporary dance projects OUTSIDE of the traditional funding and systemic status-quo of the dance world. SMP has propelled her and many others to be a catalyst for change in producing work that speaks to this.