Description: For forty years, Paul Taylor has been choreographing visually surprising dances of extraordinary beauty and excitement that have become synonymous with modern dance. His rich and compelling autobiography intertwines his dancing and his choreography to give readers an insight into the man behind the dance.

Taylor explores aspects of himself that have affected his work: the dichotomies in his personality, the "pure hues, true silences, perfect vacuums" out of which his dances have come. He delves into the creation of Aureole and From Sea to Shining Sea, from their initial inception to the ways in which specific dancers influenced the choreography, including such notables as Pina Bausch, Laura Dean, David Parsons, Twyla Tharp, Dan Wagoner, Senta Driver -- all of whom went on to form their own companies -- and others -- Berrie de Jong, Nicholas Gunn, and Carolyn Adams -- who remained as much a part of the Taylor style as the choreography itself. Taylor writes with sincerity, wit, and charm of his associations with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Anthony Tudor, George Balanchine, and many others. With Taylor's superb narrative sense and wonderful wry humor, Private Domain is a revelation of the artist and the man.

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