awards for arts achievement

Paul Taylor is one of the best choreographers in the world. He studied dance at Juilliard in the late 1940s, assembled his own company in 1954, while also dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company. After retiring as a performer in 1975, Taylor devoted himself fully to choreography, creating such classics as Esplanade, Cloven Kingdom, Airs, Arden Court, Lost, Found and Lost, and dozens more. Taylor was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 1993, named one of 50 prominent Americans in recognition of his outstanding achievement by the Library of Congress’s Office of Scholarly Programs, and granted three Guggenheim fellowships. Awards for lifetime achievement include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.