Susan McGuire
Susan McGuire,Associate Professor of Dance, was
a principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1977 to
1988 and served as rehearsal director in 1989. Prior to
joining the Taylor Company, Ms. McGuire danced as a soloist with
the Martha Graham Dance Company, which she joined in 1973. During
the sixties she danced in a regional ballet company and taught
ballet in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been on the faculties of New
York University's Tisch School of the Arts, the Martha Graham
School of Contemporary Dance, the Paul Taylor School, the summer
programs at Jacob's Pillow and Juilliard, and the American Dance
Festival. In 1989 and 1990 she held the Sage Cowels Land Grant
Chair in Dance at the University of Minnesota. Ms. McGuire was
Artistic Head of London Contemporary Dance School from 1991 to
1998. She has revived or reconstructed Paul Taylor's work for
American Ballet Theatre, the Gulbenkian Ballet of Portugal, the
Rambert Dance Company in England, Houston Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet
and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, as well as several universities. Ms.
McGuire was Director of the Martha Graham School and a rehearsal
director of the Martha Graham Dance Company from January through
June 2000. From 2000 to 2004 she was the director of Taylor 2 and
the Paul Taylor School. Ms. McGuire teaches Modern Technique,
Improvisation, Teaching Analysis of Modern Technique, Choreography
and Music, and Perspectives in the Creative Arts,Latin Dances,
African Roots.