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Antony Tudor

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Choreographer 1908–1987

Antony Tudor (born William Cook; 4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer. He founded the London Ballet, and later the Philadelphia Ballet Guild in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., in the mid-1950s.

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The Day Before Spring

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  • That first program featured Nora Kaye in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Firean almost unfair introduction to ballet. Pillar is a rare work of art and Nora Kaye was a unique artist with extraordinary emotional power. I was hookedby Tudor, by Nora, by ballet as theatre, by the music, by the glamour, by the exacting combination of art and craft-ho…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Original Story By_ A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood - Arthur Laurents.txt
  • During Ballet Theatre’s spring 1942 season in New York, a high point for both Osato and the company came with the premiere of Antony Tudor’s Pillar of Fire , which was unveiled in April and immediately became, as Agnes de Mille put it, “one of the theatrical landmarks of our era.” 72 The stars were Nora Kaye and Hugh Laing. Osato was one…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
  • 64 . “The Ballet Theatre Announces Agnes De Mille … in Antony Tudor’s ‘Judgment of Paris’ (American Premiere) … and The World Premiere … of ‘Obeah’ West Indian Ritual” [flier], Ballet Theatre Programs 1940, NYPL. Note that in this flier, the work does not yet have its final title of “Black Ritual (Obeah).” A list of the members of Ballet…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
  • LuPone continued his ballet training with Antony Tudor, whom he came to regard as the paragon of an artist. After Juilliard he was faced with four choices: American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Harkness Ballet, or the Alevin Ailey Dance Company. LuPone chose the Harkness, but soon found he was dissatisfied with the Harkn…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/B004CRTAGM EBOK - Robert Viagas & Baayork Lee & Thommie Walsh.txt
  • ANTONY TUDOR, 78 or 79, London-bom. one of the foremost ballet choreographers of the century, died April 19,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1986-87 Season, v. 43 (Willis, John).txt
  • THE PLANETS AT THE BALLET CLUB. Antony Tudor creates a ballet on Gustav Holst’s music for the dance group at London’s Mercury Theatre. Amongtheatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1935-01_19_1.txt

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