Taylor Gordon

Bio

Taylor trained at Boston Ballet School before moving away from home at age fourteen to attend the boarding academic program at The Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet on scholarship.

After graduating high school at sixteen and discovering her love of writing, she moved to NYC to continue dancing at Ballet Academy East and to study Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, where she was the Features Editor of the school paper, The Monitor. She graduated magna cum laude at age nineteen in January 2008 with a head start in pursuing a Master’s Degree in Magazine Publishing at Pace University, on top of dancing professionally. She has performed as a student with Boston Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and professionally with the Albano Ballet Company. Seizing every opportunity while juggling a dance career and college, she has interned at various magazines, most recently The New Yorker, and has written for a number of publications and websites. She enjoys giving a voice to an otherwise non-verbal art form through her writing. In this issue, Taylor explore the ups and downs of being injured as a performer.

From the contributors page of movmnt No. 6 · Spring 2008, p. 8.