TAYLOR GORDON Dancer, Student and Journalist New York, NY UYSA BIO | POSTS

As usual, I’m WAY behind on blogging! This has been a crazy summer with thousands of things going on to update about. I’ll try to post soon about some of the excitement from the past few months since I last posted…highlights include attending ABT’s College Intensive, going to the Dance Critics Association Conference in DC, finishing my internship at The New Yorker, working on the summer issue of movmnt magazine, and loads more.

But right now the big event going on for me is moving to a new apartment (still in Manhattan, thank goodness). It’s been a slow and painful process dealing with New York real estate, haha, but I’m excited to be moving out of my college dorm and into my own (small!) space.

In the process of packing up my life from the past 2 years in order to transport it 40 blocks downtown, I had to go through piles and piles of old programs, photos, pointe shoes, and memories. Tedious as it was, I got a lot of laughs from going through everything and I thought I’d share some old dance memories I came across because they’re just too good to pass up The others in these pictures might kill me for posting them but it’s worth it, haha. They’re especially funny as I approach my 20th birthday next week, haha.

More blogging soon! Hope everyone is enjoying the summer!

(As a Polichinelle in Boston’s Nutcracker…I was 9 I think? I’m second from the right standing up)

(As a Little Swan the summer I was 13. Looks like this could have been taken yesterday…I look the same age! haha)

(”Practicing” ballet in the dorms of The Rock School in 2003. What’s a dancer to do with their free time?)

(”Practicing” ballet at Christmas time at The Rock School 2004. We couldn’t stop

(Valentine’s Day at BAE last year…we got creative)

(Before Divertiment No. 15 last year at BAE)

(In class on Halloween this past year. I am Dorothy, and yes, I have a yellow brick road )

And last but not least…my first ballet class. Can you guess which one is me?