Paul Taylor Dance Company

IN RESIDENCY JUNE 21–JULY 4 AND AUGUST 1–8, 2021

A two-part residency: in July, Paul Taylor dancers rehearsed, reworked, and performed signature works, including Company B, Esplanade, and Aureole, under the guidance of Claudio Schellino, Ballet Master at Staatstheater Saarbrücken and Rehearsal Director Bettie de Jong, the former lead dancer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. 

In August, the company returned to reconstruct Kurt Jooss’s modernist masterpiece The Green Table (1932), presided over by Jeanette Vondersaar, former principal dancer of the Dutch National Ballet, who supervises stagings of The Green Table by dance companies throughout  the world. Its mesmerizing choreography and  passionate anti-war sentiment are as essential in our era as they were a century ago. The Green Table was the centerpiece of PS21’s 2022 Gala on August 6, where the program included a panel discussion about the profound impact of the work and the role of dance in society then and now, and was performed for a general audience on August 7. Read more about the company’s residency at PS21 in Side of Culture.