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	Julie Taymor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Taymor had a passion for theatre as a child, studying acting abroad in Asia and Europe as a teenager (including work with the famous French mime Jacques le Coq), and graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio with a degree in drama in 1974.
		Taymor has transitioned from the stage to the movie set in recent years, directing Titus in 1999 (an adaptation of the play Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare) and Frida in 2002 (a movie based on the life of artist Frida Kahlo).
		Julie Taymore (1801-1863) is often thought of as a pioneer for women in the arts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julie_Taymor (241 words)

	Julie Taymor as Puppet Artist
		Julie Taymor is a multi-talented theatre artist for whom puppetry is merely one aspect of her art.
		Julie Taymor was born in 1952 in Newton, a suburb of Boston (Kleinfield B3).
		Taymor's decision was made in order to capture the essence of a non-human creature, and this says much for the power of puppetry in her performance.
	www.sagecraft.com /puppetry/papers/Taymor.html (3631 words)

	Observer: Julie Taymor
		Taymor, on campus for a day, met with a group of 50 or so at 1:30 in Warner Center, where Roger Copeland, professor of theater, led a question-and-answer session with Taymor about her life and work.
		Taymor, a 1991 MacArthur "genius" award winner, traces her strongest influences to the four years she spent--one as a Watson fellow--in Indonesia and Japan in the middle and late 1970s.
		Taymor seems to be enjoying the professional success of The Lion King, but she also seems to be riding high on the experience of the play itself.
	www.oberlin.edu /news-info/99nov/observer_taymor.html (521 words)

	USA WEEKEND Magazine
		An early scene in Julie Taymor's new film, "Frida", is a slow-motion account of the 1925 bus accident that left 18-year-old Mexican artist Frida Kahlo scarred and disabled.
		Instead of a literal interpretation of the 1994 children's blockbuster, Taymor used symbols and ideograms to convey meaning, as well as experimental puppetry techniques where the audience was equally aware of both the puppet and the actor.
		Taymor calls "Frida" a "wonderful love story," and it is on that level she most identifies with Kahlo.
	www.usaweekend.com /02_issues/021117/021117taymor.html (874 words)

	Feature article on Julie Taymor and "Juan Darien" by Don Shewey
		As an outline of her pieces reveals, this is Taymor's sort of theater, and in the nine years since she unveiled her first piece in the United States, Way of Snow, in a SoHo loft theater, she has been building a reputation as an artist both bold and subtle, sophisticated and populist.
		The wall space is layers deep in masks and puppets, but when Taymor finishes showing a visitor a ship's figurehead from Liberty's Taken, she nonchalantly drops it on the windowsill next to the Macintosh SE computer on which she composes her scripts and which Goldenthal uses to program his electronic keyboards.
		Taymor's originality and vision place her in the company of the artists in many media whom she most admires: Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Brook in the theater, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa in film, the Quay brothers and Jan Svankmajer in animated film.
	www.donshewey.com /theater_articles/julie_taymor.html (1857 words)

	Julie Taymor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taymor comments on what makes the story relevant: "Our entertainment industry thrives on the graphic details of murders, rapes and villainy, yet it is rare to find a film or play that not only reflects on these dark events but also turns them inside out, probing and challenging our fundamental beliefs on morality and justice."
		Taymor notes the film blends both concrete and symbolic images of violence: "I kind of explore violence in many different ways; as something very visceral, and, like Shakespeare put it on stage, I put it on screen.
		Taymor uses a range of technology in her stage and film work, and notes the film has a "time-slice" sequence, but that they had been working on it long before MATRIX came out.
	talentdevelop.com /jtaymor.html (1500 words)

	Julie Taymor To Be Honored At Library Dinner
		Taymor is the creator and director of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of The Lion King which debuted in 1998, the new feature film Titus adapted from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and the new Broadway adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s eighteenth-century fable The Green Bird, which opened recently at the Cort Theater.
		Taymor says a traveling fellowship in visual theater profoundly influenced her as a student in her 20s.
		Taymor will be the speaker and honoree, along with children’s book author Jean Craighead George, at this year’s Associates Award Dinner, an annual fund-raiser which also marks the 20th anniversary of the Desmond-Fish Library.
	www.pcnr.com /news/2000/0510/General_Stories/may10oa6112.html (456 words)

	Director Julie Taymor paints different portrait of 'Frida' - The Daily Texan - Entertainment
		Julie Taymor felt great kinship with her subject as she set out to direct a movie about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
		Both women even survived bus wrecks, which in Taymor's case was part of the "baptism by fire" she considers critical to her development as an artist.
		Taymor, 49, knows she's got better commercial prospects in Frida, still a heavy drama but lightened by Kahlo and Rivera's grand passion, a heavy dose of whimsy and fanciful sequences that serve as cinematic facsimiles of Kahlo's painting style.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2002/10/22/Entertainment/Director.Julie.Taymor.Paints.Different.Portrait.Of.frida-498600.shtml (1101 words)

	Literature Film Quarterly: "Now is a time to storm": Julie Taymor's Titus (2000)
		Julie Taymor's Titus is a quintessentially postmodern adaptation: playful, selfconscious, heterogeneous Like other postmodern directors, Taymor plays with the makebelieve or illusionist conventions of cinema.
		Taymor's final scene, with its bright colors, the tableaux vivants, and horrendous subject matter, surely borrows from Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (1989)-in both films, nasty events are portrayed in a stylish way.
		Taymor's mix of diverse filmic iconography underlines the disconcerting mixture of tone in Titus in a new way for her own generation, for a primarily film-literate audience.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200201/ai_n9057295 (971 words)

	Director Julie Taymor Presents "Titus" to Film Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Julie Taymor, the renowned stage director (of both avant-garde work and the current Broadway hit The Lion King) and a 1999 Columbia honorary doctorate recipient, presented Titus, her first major film release, and discussed the movie with students at the School of the Arts on Feb. 25.
		Taymor agreed that Shakespeare used humor to leaven the drama, but said that her first reaction to reading Titus Andronicus was that "it shocked me." Taymor described Titus Andronicus as Shakespeare's "potboiler," his "hit," written quickly when he was young.
		Referring to Taymor's blending of time periods in her adaptation of the play, Austin Quigley, dean of Columbia College and a Shakespeare scholar, asked the director to explain her rationale for "the overall world" that she had created.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol25/16/2516_Julie_Taymor.html (472 words)

	Royce Carlton - Julie Taymor Lion King Broadway Frida Film
		Taymor is the director of two major motion pictures lauded for their striking combination of dazzling imagery and daring artistic metaphor.
		Taymor is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the first Annual Dorothy B. Chandler Performance Arts Award.
		Taymor’s work is the subject of four books: Playing with Fire; The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway; and two illustrated books of her films, Titus and Frida.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/taymor.html (412 words)

	Pricenoia.com - Julie Taymor : Playing with Fire - Julie Taymor; Eileen Blumenthal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Theater critic and scholar Eileen Blumenthal has followed the work of Taymor almost since its very beginnings, and her lengthy critical assessment of this inspired artist's work combines interviews with the director with a cogent analysis of her intellectual development and cultural sources.
		Unlike most directors, Taymor came from the world of the designer, and it was her exquisite work creating costumes, masks, and puppets that first launched her into work in the theater.
		As Taymor moves further into the world of commercial theater and film (her upcoming cinematic production of Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange and adapted from her own stage production of Titus Andronicus, opens soon), more audiences than ever will be treated to her extraordinary work.
	www.pricenoia.com /comp/0810935171/0/Julie+Taymor+%3A+Playing+with+Fire/0/index.html (399 words)

	National Museum of Women in the Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For Taymor, there is always meaning in the medium and in the process of creating: forming characters through drawing and sculpting; designing and creating costumes, masks, scenic elements, and special effects; and directing performers and working with collaborators.
		In the mid-1970s, Taymor was awarded a Watson Fellowship to study theater and puppetry in Eastern Europe and Asia; her first stop was Indonesia, where she planned to stay for a few months but remained for four years.
		Taymor was inspired by theatrical traditions there: process is as important as product to the art of creating; puppetry is one of the highest art forms; and performing is a vital part of everyday society, providing a medium between man and nature.
	www.nmwa.org /news/news.asp?newsid=29 (1469 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Frida" review (2002) Julie Taymor, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina
		Taymor is also interviewed twice on the disc, once in a Q&A at the AFI institute and once by Bill Moyers.
		Taymor makes up for such shortcoming in the penetrating dramatization of the couple's personalities, which are symbolically reflected in their artistic styles.
		But Taymor and Hayek's uncommonly thorough comprehension of their subject's creative essence is distinctly epitomized in the final scene, which slowly congeals into Kahlo's metaphorical doppelganger self-portrait "The Two Fridas." But to describe this painting, let alone everything it expresses in the wake of the movie, would be impossible.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/frida.html (1260 words)

	Julie Taymor @ Filmbug UK
		Taymor has received numerous awards for The Lion King which opened at the New Amsterdam Theater in 1997, including two Tony Awards: for best direction of a musical and for her original costume designs.
		Taymor's first opera direction was of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex for the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan, under the baton of Seiji Ozawa in 1992.
		Taymor is currently collaborating with Goldenthal on an original opera, Grendel, to premiere at the Los Angeles Opera in 2005 and subsequently at the Lincoln Center Festival.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/37043 (756 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Julie Taymor's Titus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taymor certainly has an interesting eye (she directed the Broadway production of The Lion King just before she made this film) and the movie is full of unforgettable shots and fascinating imagery.
		Regardless of Will's intentions, there can be little doubt that Taymor threw in some darkly satirical stuff in her interpretation, and I think it fits pretty well (in a Fellini-esque sorta way) with the gruesome tragedy that unfolds around it.
		Julie Taymor's TITUS is one of the most violent movies ever made.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=156406 (2617 words)

	Julie Taymor
		Devoted to Julie Taymor: The Goddess of the Stage!
		Julie Taymor is amazing and brilliant and her work cannot be described by words.
		This is a documentation of all of Julie Taymor's work over the past 20 years including sketches of costume rederings, production pictures, and SO much more.
	www.angelfire.com /musicals/rafiki/taymor.html (1248 words)

	Director Julie Taymor taps into feral instincts with upcoming 'Titus' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taymor is a coiled bundle of catlike energy.
		While Taymor is a relative newcomer to the cinema after some 25 years in the theater, she says she's excited by film though she continues her love affair with the stage.
		Taymor said she got her "dream cast" for "Titus" and she labored to make the language accessible for her actors and for audiences.
	seattlep-i.nwsource.com /movies/taymor.shtml (1425 words)

	12/11/02: Elliot Goldenthal Julie Taymor and Frida
		Any terse summation of who she was or what she represented would be at best unintentionally pejorative and at worst blatantly inaccurate.
		Director Julie Taymor and her longtime partner/collaborator composer Elliot Goldenthal last collaborated on the multi-era adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus.
		I wanted to have a female voice be a dominant part of the score, because we knew that Frida knew a woman named Concha Michel who was a singer, a communist and a revolutionary.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2002/11_Dec---Elliot_Goldenthal_Julie_Taymor_and_Frida.asp (1409 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. Bill Moyers Interviews Julie Taymor. 10.25.02 \| PBS
		TAYMOR: Well, her life seemed to transcend her pain, both her this was a woman who shouldn't have lived after this horrific accident that skewered her.
		TAYMOR: Well, I think there's a difference between how she was perceived in the '80s and how we are trying to deal with her now.
		Whatever the word feminist means to you, she was used as an icon of pain and suffering, really a woman who had tremendous abuse from her husband and survived, as I said, these accidents.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_taymor.html (2539 words)

	National Press Club -- Julie Taymor
		Julie Taymor, the director, costume designer, and co-designer of masks and puppets for The Lion King on Broadway, is a storyteller in the best sense of the word.
		During her 25-year career in theater, film, opera and television, Taymor has become famous for her ability to spark the imagination of audiences through the innovative use of masks, puppetry, live actors and spectacular scenic imagery.
		Back in the United States, Taymor attended Oberlin College, where she focused on the ritual origins of theater through a study of folklore and mythology.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2000/001115.jtaymor.html (359 words)

	Julie Taymor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Julie Taymor 974216945 974329200 Washington USA Artswire.org http://www.nmwa.org/ 974216976.jpg 949705199 o NMWA Julie Taymor Playing with fire.
		Julie Taymor's fertile imagination and genius for storytelling in theater and opera and on film have drawn acclaim from audiences and critics worldwide.
		She achieved fame in 1998 as director, co-composer, costume designer, and co-designer of masks and puppets of Disney's The Lion King on Broadway, and was the first woman to win a Tony award for director of a musical.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/974329200.974216945.html (337 words)

	Disney Musical Theatre - The Lion King
		Taymor made her Broadway debut in 1996 with Juan Darién (Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater), nominated for five Tony Awards®.
		Taymor's awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy for her film of Oedipus Rex, Obie Awards for Visual Magic and for Juan Darién, the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the Dorothy Chandler Performing Arts Award, and the International Classical Music Award for Best Opera Production (Oedipus Rex).
		A revised and expanded edition of the book Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire, spanning more than 20 years of her work, is published by Abrams.
	disney.co.uk /MusicalTheatre/TheLionKing/abouttheshow/julietaymor.html (339 words)

	'The Lion King' may be a sensation, but when Julie Taymor was offered the chance to direct it, her first instinct was ...
		Reconceived by Taymor and her collaborators as a mythologically based spectacle pulsing with new music, an enhanced story line and characters, and kaleidoscopic visual splendor, the show was an artistic and popular triumph.
		Born and raised in Massachusetts, Taymor, 51, took to the theater early, first in her backyard and later at the esteemed Boston Children's Theater.
		Taymor studied mime in Paris, joined Herbert Blau's influential Kraken acting ensemble at Oberlin College and formed her own company, Teatr Loh, in Indonesia.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/29/DDGND4J6U71.DTL&type=performance (1136 words)

	Julie Taymor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a number of interviews, director and designer Julie Taymor has talked about the rich and formative experience she had during her twenties, living in Indonesia and learning about its art and theater.
		Taymor uses a range of technology in her stage and film work, and noted in our interview about her film "Titus" that she doesn't use special effects if she doesn't need to.
		Taymor has been critical of artists having too much reliance on computers and other technology for stimulating or expressing creative ideas.
	talentdevelop.com /Page1030.html (642 words)

	CTV.ca \| New film brings artist Kahlo to big screen
		Finishing high school early, Taymor studied mime in Paris at 16 and continued to work in theatre while studying folklore and mythology at Oberlin College.
		On her way to study in Japan for a year, she stopped for a three-month stay in Indonesia and was so taken with the culture she remained for four years, forming her own theatre company.
		Taymor's preoccupation with the fantastical and folkloric stands out all the more given the neo-realism that has dominated modern film and theatre.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1035324913722_61?s_name= (1019 words)

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