Dancemaker Paul Taylor, one of the seminal artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, continues to shape the homegrown American art of modern dance that he has helped define since he became a professional dancer and pioneering choreographer in 1954. After 60 years as Artistic Director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, he blazed a new trail in 2014 by establishing an institutional home for the art form: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance. Mr. Taylor will curate and present great modern dances of the past and present alongside his own works at Lincoln Center and other preeminent venues throughout the world, and nurture a new generation of choreographers so that modern dance flourishes long into the future.