Frances Taylor Davis was an American choreographer and ballet dancer, born in 1929 in Chicago, who died in 2018.
Biography
Frances Elizabeth Taylor Davis (September 28, 1929 – November 17, 2018) was an American dancer and actress who was a member of the Katherine Dunham Company, and the first African American ballerina to perform with the Paris Opera Ballet.
Credited as Elizabeth Taylor, she had roles in the Broadway musicals Mr. Wonderful, Shinbone Alley, and was an original cast member of West Side Story. Taylor also appeared in the Off-Broadway productions of Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. At the peak of her career, she left Broadway to marry jazz musician Miles Davis.
Contemporaries
Nat Horne
American dancer, choreographer, and director
Neal Kenyon
American choreographer and theatre director
Marilyn Wood
American choreographer and writer (1929-2016)
Jill Johnston
British-born American feminist author and cultural critic
Tina Ramírez
American dancer (1929–2022)
Remy Charlip
American artist and children's writer (1929–2012)
Don Lurio
Italian dancer (1927–2003)
Vicente Nebrada
Venezuelan choreographer and ballet dancer (1930–2002)
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