{"id":13241,"date":"2021-12-02T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=13241"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:22","slug":"american-ballet-theatre-judith-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/american-ballet-theatre-judith-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"American Ballet Theatre&#8217;s Orbit: Judith Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>American Ballet Theatre&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Four Marys<\/em> and Judith Taylor<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15529\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/TheConstellationProject\/ABTNegroUnitOrbit\/#fourmarysorbit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15529 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb-230x136.png 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb-350x207.png 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb-480x284.png 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb-600x355.png 600w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/abtthumb.png 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Click to view American Ballet Theatre; The Four Marys Orbit<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13886\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13886\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Judith Taylor\" width=\"159\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-230x346.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-350x526.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-480x721.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor-600x902.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/judith-taylor.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judith Taylor, photo by Laurie Gaboardi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judith Taylor danced with American Ballet Theatre for five years, during which she danced under her maiden name of Judith Lerner. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Four Marys,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Taylor played the young woman whose suitor falls in love with one of her maids. After her time at ABT, Taylor ended her career as a dancer, citing a desire to go to college and get married.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>More about Judith Taylor<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taylor began studying ballet at a young age, ultimately earning a place at George Balanchine\u2019s School of American Ballet and later joining American Ballet Theatre. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After leaving her career as a dancer, she transitioned into work in dance therapy and healthcare, earning a degree in nursing and finding a passion for medical journalism. She t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hen transitioned to a career in pharmaceutical marketing, where she remained for ten years, then leaving her position as vice president to return to art, this time through pottery. Taylor then f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ounded a pottery company, EarthDancesPottery, that aims to incorporate the movement of dance into pottery practice. Taylor continues to incorporate ballet barre into her pottery work and maintains her strength through dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countytimes.com\/community\/roxburys-judith-taylor-career-path-from-ballet-to-nursing-to-pottery\/article_a4f5005c-2eae-5278-a49e-1a0d319e33c4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Roxbury&#8217;s Judith Taylor Career Path, The Litchfield County Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13585\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/williamslogo-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Crants<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Ballet Theatre&#8217;s\u00a0The Four Marys and Judith Taylor Judith Taylor danced with American Ballet Theatre for five years, during which she danced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"universe-template.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abt-negro-unit-constellation","category-universe"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15538,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions\/15538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}