Lynne Taylor-Corbett Dies: Choreographer For Hollywood’s ‘Footloose’, Broadway’s ‘Titanic’ Was 78
deadline.comLynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway‘s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo dance in the 1984 hit film Footloose, died of breast cancer January 12 at a hospital in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Long Island.
She was 78. Her death was announced to The New York Times by her son Shaun Taylor-Corbett. Accomplished in the worlds of ballet, theater and film, Lynne Aileen Taylor was born in Denver on December 2, 1946, moving to New York after high school to attend the School of American Ballet.
Though her hopes for a career as a ballet dancer were short lived: She would later tell The New York Times, “I was never really suited to be a ballet dancer, but I had a gift for theatricality and movement.” Her career as a choreographer, however, soon took off, and by the early 1980s she established herself with work for New York’s American Ballet Theater and the City Ballet.
She received commissions from other dance companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
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