26 Friday April 20 2001 V lb Taylor From 25 relationship with his dancers as a long term commitment a desire on the dancer's part to settle into a dance "home" and perform Ta lor's repertoire also figures in Patrick Corbin currently the company's “senior dancer’’ is typical ol the Taylor dancers m that he did not enter the company at the beginning of Ins career and had more than a single kind of dance education in Ins background “I started mu wanting to be a song and dance man" he related in a phone interview from a stop on route to Ogden “but I'm definitely in the company as a lifer now “When was about 12 my teachers suggested that needed to bike some ballet classes to build strength and improve my techtiuiue It was u great time to be studying ballet - it was in the early '80s during the heyday of the ballet boom danced with the Jeffrey Ballet for four years near the time Robert Joffrey died and the company disbanded I remember Linda Kent directing a piece called ‘Forgotten linnd’ toward the end of my time there She looked and said 'It’s too clean let’s dirty it up a little' by which she meant we were really displaying no ever-evolvin- g OSS OSS ji lU tMH)irp(C(ilO An Evening With DONNYEMIl 1 1 S' 1 f p f I artistry "I knew the time was ing to move on but I really auditioned for the Taylor company as a lark I was shocked to learn got in I find Paul's work to be a very balletic form of modern dance so it was a comfortable transition "And Paul and his wife Betty de Jong who danced with him for many years were very forgiving as 1 learned the repertory They let you find your own way" 1 Cut Your Utility Bills Jumps Pulley gives ynti ups to kuve money in tom home mh S mini iv In the Stuncliml uiumei lie Seilion P© a & § MSHSfB CDfflQ Get Smart i’