Taylor Lauren Hughes is a London-based contemporary movement artist, dance teacher, and choreographer originally from Southern California. She trained in a diverse range of styles including contemporary, jazz, ballet, and commercial dance, and holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University. While based in Los Angeles, Taylor was a member of Geometry Dance Company and Backhaus Dance Company.
In her personal practice, Taylor explores continuity and flow through the body, using articulation and energy to create movement that feels organic, expressive, and uniquely her own. Guided by curiosity and spontaneity, she approaches physicality as a space for discovery. Taylor is also interested in the intersection of contemporary dance and other creative mediums and how movement can extend into visual and design-based forms of expression.
Taylor is a graduate of the MA Dance: Performance programme at LCDS, where she was a member of Cohort 02. During the programme she worked with project leaders such as Dickson Mbi Company, Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Theo Clinkard, Steve Kirkham, Holly Blakey, Hannes Langolf, Seke Chimutengwende, Benjamin Jonsson, Rakesh Sukesh and Alleyne Dance under the course leadership of Tom English, Tina Afiyan Breiova and Dr Andrew Sanger, working closely with individual mentor Emma Farnell-Watson.