Amy started on September 19th at QACHS with dance teacher Kristen Tyler’s dance company members creating a new dance based on the style and moving qualities of the famous choreographer Paul Taylor. Amy’s residency will span the fall semester visiting QACHS once a week over 10 to 12 rehearsal sessions during the school day.
Amy will also be working with the Kent Island Dance Company Dancers in the spring of 2025. Amy is creating a new merge dance project that both high school programs will perform together on each other’s spring dance concerts. Amy will spend the spring residency at KIHS once a week over 10 to 12 rehearsal sessions to create a new dance for the dancers at KIHS.
Amy (Young) Kleinendorst began her dance training at the age of ten in her hometown near Seattle, Washington. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, she went on to receive a BFA from The Juilliard School. Ms. Kleinendorst joined Taylor 2 soon after and made her debut as a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Paris Opera House in January of 2000. She is also a founding member of TAKE Dance Company (2004-2010). Throughout her 17 year career, Ms.Kleinendorst taught master classes, residencies, intensives and workshops all over the world and continues to do so.
Since retiring from the stage in 2013, she has also begun to share Paul’s work by setting his pieces at St. Paul’s School, Interlochen Arts Academy, The Citadel Dance and Music Center, Boston Conservatory, University of Wyoming, University of Arizona, and Point Park University. She has been on faculty at The Taylor School in NYC where she taught weekly youth classes as well as professional level classes. Amy and her husband Robert, a fellow Paul Taylor Dancer moved to Severna Park in 2021. Amy is currently an adjunct professor at Towson University and teaches weekly classes at the Severna Park Community Center.
