Taylor Marie
silks, lyra, trapeze, corde lisse, invented apparatus, modern dance, acrobatics
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Taylor Marie is the founder, Artistic Director (Co-Director), and head choreographer for Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts
Taylor Marie is a performing artist (aerialist, dancer, and musician/singer-songwriter), visual artist (painting, drawing, mixed media, clothing design, jewelry-making), and researcher/writer in sustainable lutherie and plant neurobiology for Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery and Wisdom Tree Institute, in addition to working and performing regularly at Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona (home venue for Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts).
Taylor has a background in modern dance and ballet and currently performs on aerial silks, lyra, corde lisse, trapeze, and invented apparatus. Taylor has performed as a professional musician and aerialist/dancer, in addition to teaching workshops in aerial silks and partner acrobatics, across the Southwest and in France. Taylor has trained in aerial dance at Frequent Flyers, Altitude Aerials, Scorpius Dance Theatre, Vertical Fix, Illuminar Aerial, and Momentum Aerial. |
photo by Ron Brewer Images
Photo by James Ismert Photography
photo by Morgan Louvier
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Photo by James Ismert Photography
photo by Ron Brewer Images
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photo by James Ismert Photography
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Full Biography / Artist Resume
Taylor Marie is what one might call a ‘professional dabbler’, creating visual arts (in the form of paintings and drawings, hand-made clothing designs and beaded fabric art, doll-making, jewelry, mixed media); performance art pieces [original singing/songwriting and music (guitar, piano, voice), aerial dance (silks, trapeze, lyra, corde lisse, invented apparatus, traveling rings, Roulette Cyr), and modern dance]; and written works (poetry, short-story fiction).
“Her debut CD “Standing On My Head” is a poetic journal recounting intimate revelations about love, life, and relationships. Each song, performed with solo guitar and voice, reveals a world rich in metaphor, stark with simplicity and directness.”
As a musician, Taylor has headlined her own concerts as a soloist (under the former stage name “Ty”) including appearances at the Old Town Center for the Arts (Cottonwood, Arizona) and the Tempe Center for the Arts, and has opened for Arizona legends Walt Richardson, Big Pete Pearson, and Anthony Mazzella. She has toured with four-time Grammy Finalist William Eaton, violinist Allen Ames, and flutist Claudia Tulip of the William Eaton Ensemble throughout the Southwest playing original music. Taylor spent three years performing all-original music weekly at L’Auberge de Sedona resort in Arizona. Her first album, Standing On My Head, was published and released in 2008. Most recently, Taylor is the founding member of the Moving Order Band, a musical group of various members performing live music for Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts during their aerial dance and movement arts performances. Taylor performs with several musical groups, including the Moving Order Band, the William Eaton Ensemble, and Ty in the Sky.
Taylor and Sam Tribble, founder of Spinnovation, began creating duets incorporating live original music, aerial apparatus, Cyr wheel, and partner acrobatics after meeting at the 2014 Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival. Taylor and Sam have traveled together across several states as performing artists and aerial instructors teaching Cyr and Silks workshops; notable events including a Cyr / Music / Traveling Rings performance at the Project in Motion Aerial Dance Festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico; a Cyr/live music video collaboration at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado; and a Cyr/live music performance at Hoopcamp 2014 in Watsonville, California (Pema Osel Ling retreat center).
Taylor began designing wearable art in the form of Mermaid Bras; hand-stitched and embellished one-of-a-kind designs that have been featured in photo shoots by Armando Kiyama (Mondo Art Photography) and Michael Luna (Michael Luna Photography). Taylor’s designs can be seen in the music video “Most Hated In The Club” as worn by the musical group A’more.
Taylor’s published creative writing has appeared in Marooned Magazine (Arizona State University) and in a book of poetry (a collection featuring various poets). Taylor has also appeared as an art model and dancer in the published books, "Flying Colors", "Dancing Colors and Halos", "Spirit of Form", and "Mind & Eye: The Paintings of John Henry Waddell" (featuring a photo of a sculpture modeling session), by photographer/publisher/artist/author Michel F. Sarda.
Taylor earned a BA in Creative Writing and a second BA in French translation, linguistics, and literature from Arizona State University (magna cum laude, 2015) and spent two semesters abroad at Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France (2012-2013) and one year of study at Pima Medical Institute in Phoenix, Arizona (2020).
Taylor is the founder and Artistic Director of the Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts dance company: A multi-disciplinary movement company exploring the space from floor to air through modern dance, acrobatics, flow arts, and aerial arts based out of Sedona and the Verde Valley (Arizona), specializing in performing to live original music. Her first-ever experience in the world of aerial dance was a two-week intensive during the Frequent Flyers aerial dance festival, including a silks course with artist Fred Deb' (often credited with inventing and pioneering the art of aerial silks in 1992), static trapeze with Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion (founders of NECCA), and low-flying trapeze with Robert Davidson (known for teaching Skinner Releasing Technique) in Boulder, Colorado at age 13 thanks to her mother Christine Eaton (known professionally/formerly as Christine Lamb) who danced with Nikolais Dance Theatre and traveled performing around the world. Taylor has a background in modern dance and ballet and currently performs on aerial silks, lyra, corde lisse, trapeze, and invented apparatus. Taylor has trained in aerial dance at Frequent Flyers, Altitude Aerials, Scorpius Dance Theatre, Vertical Fix, Illuminar Aerial, and Momentum Aerial.
Currently (2023), Taylor Marie performs as an aerialist, composes and performs original music, creates visual art, designs/embellishes clothing and beaded art. Taylor also writes, researches, and creates website designs for Wisdom Tree Institute, an organization dedicated to providing and sharing educational information about trees, our impact on the planet, and the art of sustainable lutherie in collaboration with Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery. Taylor is a gallery associate at the Sedona Arts Center Gallery, a nonprofit arts organization and school that brings art to the community and celebrates local artists, and also works in various roles at the Old Town Center for the Arts and Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery.
Taylor's greatest inspiration is her parents; modern dancer Christine Eaton, and musician and luthier William Eaton, Director and Co-Founder of Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery and founder of Wisdom Tree Institute. Together, William and Christine created the performing arts center Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona, and the Eaton family has been hosting a variety of performances at their venue - from music, to dance, to comedy and improvisation, and more - since 2009.
“Her debut CD “Standing On My Head” is a poetic journal recounting intimate revelations about love, life, and relationships. Each song, performed with solo guitar and voice, reveals a world rich in metaphor, stark with simplicity and directness.”
As a musician, Taylor has headlined her own concerts as a soloist (under the former stage name “Ty”) including appearances at the Old Town Center for the Arts (Cottonwood, Arizona) and the Tempe Center for the Arts, and has opened for Arizona legends Walt Richardson, Big Pete Pearson, and Anthony Mazzella. She has toured with four-time Grammy Finalist William Eaton, violinist Allen Ames, and flutist Claudia Tulip of the William Eaton Ensemble throughout the Southwest playing original music. Taylor spent three years performing all-original music weekly at L’Auberge de Sedona resort in Arizona. Her first album, Standing On My Head, was published and released in 2008. Most recently, Taylor is the founding member of the Moving Order Band, a musical group of various members performing live music for Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts during their aerial dance and movement arts performances. Taylor performs with several musical groups, including the Moving Order Band, the William Eaton Ensemble, and Ty in the Sky.
Taylor and Sam Tribble, founder of Spinnovation, began creating duets incorporating live original music, aerial apparatus, Cyr wheel, and partner acrobatics after meeting at the 2014 Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival. Taylor and Sam have traveled together across several states as performing artists and aerial instructors teaching Cyr and Silks workshops; notable events including a Cyr / Music / Traveling Rings performance at the Project in Motion Aerial Dance Festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico; a Cyr/live music video collaboration at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado; and a Cyr/live music performance at Hoopcamp 2014 in Watsonville, California (Pema Osel Ling retreat center).
Taylor began designing wearable art in the form of Mermaid Bras; hand-stitched and embellished one-of-a-kind designs that have been featured in photo shoots by Armando Kiyama (Mondo Art Photography) and Michael Luna (Michael Luna Photography). Taylor’s designs can be seen in the music video “Most Hated In The Club” as worn by the musical group A’more.
Taylor’s published creative writing has appeared in Marooned Magazine (Arizona State University) and in a book of poetry (a collection featuring various poets). Taylor has also appeared as an art model and dancer in the published books, "Flying Colors", "Dancing Colors and Halos", "Spirit of Form", and "Mind & Eye: The Paintings of John Henry Waddell" (featuring a photo of a sculpture modeling session), by photographer/publisher/artist/author Michel F. Sarda.
Taylor earned a BA in Creative Writing and a second BA in French translation, linguistics, and literature from Arizona State University (magna cum laude, 2015) and spent two semesters abroad at Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France (2012-2013) and one year of study at Pima Medical Institute in Phoenix, Arizona (2020).
Taylor is the founder and Artistic Director of the Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts dance company: A multi-disciplinary movement company exploring the space from floor to air through modern dance, acrobatics, flow arts, and aerial arts based out of Sedona and the Verde Valley (Arizona), specializing in performing to live original music. Her first-ever experience in the world of aerial dance was a two-week intensive during the Frequent Flyers aerial dance festival, including a silks course with artist Fred Deb' (often credited with inventing and pioneering the art of aerial silks in 1992), static trapeze with Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion (founders of NECCA), and low-flying trapeze with Robert Davidson (known for teaching Skinner Releasing Technique) in Boulder, Colorado at age 13 thanks to her mother Christine Eaton (known professionally/formerly as Christine Lamb) who danced with Nikolais Dance Theatre and traveled performing around the world. Taylor has a background in modern dance and ballet and currently performs on aerial silks, lyra, corde lisse, trapeze, and invented apparatus. Taylor has trained in aerial dance at Frequent Flyers, Altitude Aerials, Scorpius Dance Theatre, Vertical Fix, Illuminar Aerial, and Momentum Aerial.
Currently (2023), Taylor Marie performs as an aerialist, composes and performs original music, creates visual art, designs/embellishes clothing and beaded art. Taylor also writes, researches, and creates website designs for Wisdom Tree Institute, an organization dedicated to providing and sharing educational information about trees, our impact on the planet, and the art of sustainable lutherie in collaboration with Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery. Taylor is a gallery associate at the Sedona Arts Center Gallery, a nonprofit arts organization and school that brings art to the community and celebrates local artists, and also works in various roles at the Old Town Center for the Arts and Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery.
Taylor's greatest inspiration is her parents; modern dancer Christine Eaton, and musician and luthier William Eaton, Director and Co-Founder of Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery and founder of Wisdom Tree Institute. Together, William and Christine created the performing arts center Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona, and the Eaton family has been hosting a variety of performances at their venue - from music, to dance, to comedy and improvisation, and more - since 2009.
Photos by James Ismert Photography
