2024 - Adjudicator - Stage (Dance)
Taylor Dolan is a Vancouver based versatile dance artist and educator who began at Spiral Dance Co. and further advanced her training with the ballet-contemporary company Lamon Dance and later The London Contemporary School of Dance.
Her professional career started at the age of twelve dancing for Disney & on-screen Nickelodeon. Later, when Taylor resided in London UK, she trained performers for West End productions such as; The Lion King, Annie & Miss Saigon and was a resident teacher at The Dance Attic in Fulham Broadway. Her other European credits include the MMVA’s in the Netherlands and teacher/adjudicator in Firenze Italy, and commercial production tours across the UK.
Among her dancing, Taylor is an improvisation artist who performs for on-screen films for international film festivals and live theater. She has danced in music videos for popular recording artists over the past decade. Taylor has had the opportunity of working with the Vancouver dance company The Response. and has experience as an Artistic Studio Director.
Her choreography has won numerous awards and her customized classroom environment has displayed healthy success for various young dance artists. Her most recent students have gone on to work with companies such as; The English National Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Juilliard and Alonzo Lines Ballet.
She has been the BC Provincial Adjudicator and works habitually with the BCPAF and other private competitions.
Taylor currently lives in Verona Italy and continues her career as a teacher/choreographer & adjudicator. She still strives to broaden her knowledge by being a student in dance and trains with mentors and master artists across Europe. Taylor founded The TDDance Initiative in
2015 that strives to make dance accessible for all economy classes and bodies while focusing on fundraising in support of local communities.
Working in the art and education of dance is her passion and leading future generations to explore their relationship with dance brings her great gratitude.