ABSTRACT
As a dancer, I had the good fortune to spend 17 years performing the work of a master dance maker, Paul Taylor. I had the privilege of participating in the creation of new works, and the opportunity, over the years, to inherit roles that were created for dancers with technical and performance skills different from mine. This provided me with wonderful challenges. The best part was that I had time to grow, to rehearse and perform these rich and substantive works over a period of years, to rediscover them at different points in my development. All this took place in the decades before dancers routinely began to learn choreography from video; the transmission of information was an intensely personal experience.
