Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a renowned Broadway choreographer and dancer, passed away at the age of 83 due to breast cancer. She is best known for her work on exuberant musicals like 'Seven Deadly Sins' and for choreographing Kevin Bacon's iconic dance in 'Footloose'. Taylor-Corbett was a trailblazer for women in the entertainment industry, breaking barriers as a choreographer and director in a male-dominated field.
Lynne Taylor-Corbett during a rehearsal for her New York Ballet production of Seven Deadly Sins in New York in 2011.Raised in Denver, Lynne Taylor-Corbett moved to New York at 17 to attend the School of American Ballet. Her dreams of establishing a career en pointe did not last long.
Taylor-Corbett later carved out a place in Hollywood – not to mention 1980s lore – by laying down the steps for Kevin Bacon’s famously acrobatic solo dance in. “Dance should not be a cerebral experience that the dancers have and the audiences watch. I want dancers to communicate something and have the audience receive the same thing.”. Simply taking the reins of a major production was an accomplishment for a woman in those days.
The show earned Taylor-Corbett nominations for several accolades, including Tony awards as choreographer and director. Although she fell short of her dreams of becoming a prima ballerina, Taylor-Corbett did make her mark as a dancer. She toured Africa and the Middle East in the late 1960s with Alvin Ailey’s celebrated dance company.The cause of her death, at a hospital, was breast cancer, which she had survived for 38 years, her son, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, said.
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