Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett directs acrobatic dance moves for Kevin Bacon starrer and was nominated for two Tony Awards for his efforts in swing!already dead. She is 78 years old.

Taylor-Corbett died of breast cancer on January 12 at Rockville Center in New York, her son Shaun Taylor-Corbett told reporters. new york times.

Taylor-Corbett was a dancer with Alvin Ailey's Dance Company and the 1981 Broadway choreographer Shakespeare Cabaret1985 winter boys1988 chess1994 Sally Marr...and her escorts1997-99 Titanic1997-98 years Jackie and 1999-2001 swing!for which she also wrote songs and directed.

swing!A dance celebration of the big band era, it featured zero dialogue and was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Taylor-Corbett won Best Choreography of a Musical and Best Director.

In a 1984 interview, Bacon noted that Taylor-Corbett was not a dancer when he co-starred as Ren McCormack. free (1984), directed by Herbert Ross.

"I do a lot of gymnastics training and a lot of dance training. I wake up with new muscles that I never thought I would get injured," he said. “It’s really challenging and exciting.”

Taylor Corbett's film resume also included in the crowd (1988), Ross my blue heaven (1990), Cameron Crowe vanilla sky (2001) with Nora Ephron Obsessed (2005).

"As a dancer and choreographer, my goal is to be understood," Taylor-Corbett once told era. "Dance shouldn't be a cerebral experience for the dancer and the audience to watch. I want the dancer to be able to convey something and for the audience to receive the same thing."

Lynne Aileen Taylor was born in Denver on December 2, 1946, one of six daughters. Her father, Travis, was a high school vice principal, and her mother, Dorothy, was a pianist and music teacher.

At 17, she moved to New York to attend the School of American Ballet and worked as an usher at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Ballet.

Taylor-Corbett toured Africa and the Middle East for two seasons as a member of the Ailey Dance Company in the late 1960s, and appeared on Broadway with Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach. promise, promisewhich debuted in 1968.

She turned to choreography in 1972 when she and other dancers founded the Theater Dance Series, and a decade later she had her breakthrough in dance The Great Pentium Gottschalka ballet based on the work of New Orleans composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Since 1987, Taylor-Corbett has choreographed and/or directed more than a dozen Off-Broadway musicals, including 1992's Eat Raoul2009 My juggling man! and last year’s Native American theme. distant thunder.

In addition to her son, survivors include her sisters, Sharon, Kelly, Jenny, Leslie and Katherine. Donations in her memory may be made to Armas Musical Theater to support her future distant thunder.