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  Glen Tetley - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Tetley, Glen 1926-, American dancer and choreographer, b.
Tetley also danced (1962-65) with the Netherlands Dance Theater, briefly becoming (1969) its co-director, and directed (1974-76) the Stuttgart Ballet.
Tea Folk being shelved as Tetley tackles flagging sales of sector: `we feel that the market is crying out for some passion and a new lease of life'.
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 Ballet choreographer Glen Tetley dies - Glen Tetley, whose fusion of ballet and modern dance shook d...
Tetley, a U.S. choreographer who enjoyed popularity in Europe, influenced dance companies worldwide with his pioneering choreography that integrated modern-dance movement into European choreography of line and partnering, The New York Times said.
Tetley was associated with the Royal Ballet in Britain, the Australian Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.
Before his European swing, Tetley was one of the original members of the Joffrey Ballet in 1956 and performed with Martha Graham's company in 1958, as well as several other U.S. modern dance groups in the 1960s.
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 Ballet Archive :: Ballet Archive :: Glen Tetly (choreographer)
Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1926, Glen Tetley is one of the 20th century's most renowned and respected choreographers.
In 1995 Tetley was the subject of Michael Blackwood’s documentary film, Glen Tetley: Pierrot’s Tower, broadcast in New York and in Europe.
Tetley's numerous awards and honours include the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award from the Royal Academy of Dance, The Tennant Caledonian Award, the Priz Italia RAI- Prize, and in the spring of 1988 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater, New York University.
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 Glen Tetley | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Tetley was a good enough dancer to be a principal with New York City Opera (1951-54), perform with Robert Joffrey's first ballet company (1955-56) and be invited to join American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Bruce remembers Tetley's early years with Rambert and NDT as a rich period of pushing the boundaries of dance in a way that was to affect choreographers for decades to come.
Tetley always tried to be present whenever one of his ballets was newly mounted or revived.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,2001638,00.html   (1224 words)

  
 Classical Net - Performers - Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley is one of a number of choreographers who have explored the balletic possibilities of Michael Torke's music.
Glen Tetley was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926.
Tetley's performing experience was prodigious and eclectic; he danced in the companies of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, José Limon and Pear Lang; he was a founding member of the Joffrey Ballet and principal soloist of American Ballet Theatre; and in 1961 he joined Jerome Robbin's Ballet USA (appearing in Robbin's On the Town).
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/articles/torke/tetley.html   (1105 words)

  
 A master of modern dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
GLEN TETLEY'S pioneering fusion of ballet and modern dance rattled purists but influenced major companies worldwide, including the Australian Ballet.
Tetley, who had every intention of becoming a doctor, saw the American Ballet Theatre in 1945, when he was 19, and decided to become a dancer.
Tetley, who has died at 80, was Europe's favourite American choreographer, more honoured in the old world than the new.
www.smh.com.au /handheld/articles/2007/02/05/1170524025908.html   (649 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Glen Tetley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
GLEN Tetley was a major force in the creation of innovative ballets for over 60 years.
Tetley always used contemporary music and these two factors often put him at odds not only with the public but also with dancers.
Tetley often worked in London - both at the Ballet Rambert and the Royal Ballet (RB) - and his ballets were performed at two Edinburgh International Festivals (EIF).
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 CANOE -- JAM! - Choreograher Glen Tetley dies
Glen Tetley, the choreographer who gave the National Ballet of Canada such enduring works as Oracle, Tagore, La Ronde and Alice, died last Friday in Florida, just days shy of his 81st birthday, on Feb. 3.
Tetley was a founding member of the Joffrey Ballet and a principal soloist with the American Ballet Theatre.
Tetley served as an artistic associate with the NBOC from 1987 through '89.
jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/2007/01/30/pf-3481130.html   (257 words)

  
 Franklin & Marshall Magazine
Glen Tetley '46 is near the rafters--about four stories up--of F&M's old Fackenthal Pool, clinging to a giant ladder with his fellow Naval officers in training as they execute a mock abandon-ship exercise.
Tetley talks of New York as being a "tremendous adventure," and of coming to the dance world "with a lot of curiosity." Did this sense of all doors being open allow him to gracefully navigate the battle lines between the dance pioneers of the day?
But Tetley is not one to sit on a stool in the studio tapping a cane on the floor.
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 Glen Tetley; choreographer bridged ballet, modern dance - The Boston Globe
LOS ANGELES -- Glen Tetley, an acclaimed dancer and internationally celebrated choreographer who bridged the worlds of ballet and modern dance, has died.
Tetley began his professional career as a Broadway dancer, he soon became adept at both modern dance and ballet, performing leading roles in the Martha Graham Dance Company as well as American Ballet Theatre, arguably at the stylistic extremes of the art.
Tetley began dancing and choreographing for Nederlands Dans Theater, becoming codirector of that company in 1969.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/02/03/glen_tetley_choreographer_bridged_ballet_modern_dance   (549 words)

  
 Stuttgarter Wochenblatt
Tetley hat den zeitgenössischen Tanz entscheidend geprägt, indem er die Trennung zwischen Modern Dance und klassischem Ballett sowohl in der eigenen Tänzerkarriere als auch in seinem choreographischen Schaffen überwand.
Glen Tetley wurde 1926 in Cleveland/Ohio geboren und studierte zunächst Medizin, bevor er sich dem Ballett zuwandte.
In den drei Jahren, die er beim Stuttgarter Ballett wirkte, schuf Tetley einige seine bedeutendsten Arbeiten, darunter "Voluntaries", 1973 beim Stuttgarter Ballett uraufgeführt, und "Le Sacre du printemps", das seine Uraufführung 1974 in München erlebte und 1976 in das Repertoire des Stuttgarter Balletts aufgenommen wurde.
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 Glen Tetley Joining Canada's National Ballet - New York Times
LEAD: Glen Tetley, the internationally known choreographer and former director of the Stuttgart Ballet, will join the National Ballet of Canada as artistic associate, the company has announced.
Glen Tetley, the internationally known choreographer and former director of the Stuttgart Ballet, will join the National Ballet of Canada as artistic associate, the company has announced.
Tetley, whose latest work, ''Alice,'' was performed by the company last season in Toronto and New York, will advise management in nearly all artistic areas, including repertory, casting and scheduling, starting March 1, the company said Tuesday.
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 Tetley Glen: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
GLEN TETLEY CREATES WORLD PREMIERE FOR HOUSTON BALLET...Halverson HOUSTON, Texas--Choreographer Glen Tetley is clearly a man who embraces opposites...ballets I would rather avoid than those of Glen Tetley," but the European critics, particularly...
The lithe and attractive troupe has a juicy back catalogue featuring work by Glen Tetley, William Forsythe and George Balanchine, but (as is so often the way) their first visit to Britain in 17 years bypassed...
Nureyev also danced in a number of works by modern-dance choreographers, including Glen Tetley and Paul Taylor; frequently appeared on television; was the star and subject of a feature-length film; and had a limited-run...
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 Glen Tetley, 80, Pioneering Choreographer, Dies - New York Times
Glen Tetley, an American choreographer long popular in Europe whose pioneering fusion of ballet and modern dance challenged taboos and rattled purists but influenced major companies worldwide, died on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 80 and also had homes in New York and Rome.
Tetley — who also succeeded John Cranko as director of the Stuttgart Ballet from 1974 to 1976 choreographed in the United States for American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, the Houston Ballet and in Toronto for the National Ballet of Canada.
Tetley’s partner of 42 years, died in 1996, he choreographed “Lux in Tenebris,” another elegiac piece, for the Houston Ballet in 1999; it was his last work.
www.nytimes.com /2007/01/30/arts/dance/30tetley.html?ex=1327813200&en=f5acecfaa9dca2ea&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (964 words)

  
 The National Ballet of Canada | Performances | 06/07 Season | A Footstep of Air... | Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley was one of the leading choreographers of the twentieth century.
As a dancer Tetley studied contemporary dance with Hanya Holm and Martha Graham, and trained in classical dance with Margaret Craske and Antony Tudor and at the School of American Ballet.
Tetley received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, the Prix Italian RAI prixe, the Ohioana Award, the New York University Alumni Award, the Tennant Caledonia Award for the Edinburgh Festival and the German Critics Award.
www.national.ballet.ca /performance.php?0607_season/foot-opus-vol/glen_tetley-bio   (522 words)

  
 Ballet-Dance Magazine - Interview - Glenn Tetley - by Karen Webb
Tetley confirms the rumors that circulate that Robbins was a difficult man to work for, but in the end the two became good friends (although he says he was warned in his callow youth by a female cast member from "On the Town" never to go home with the choreographer).
Tetley says he was struck during his studies by the impact Asian movement forms have had on the styles of the men and women we consider pioneers in contemporary dance.
Tetley says that although he can’t demonstrate all the movements he wants as he did once upon a time, he still does prefer to demonstrate what he can.
www.ballet-dance.com /200406/articles/Tetley20040501.html   (2646 words)

  
 Tetley Citation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Here is how Glen Tetley, one of the foremost choreographers of our time, describes a part of the process: "Suddenly you enter, if you're lucky, a blessed state where you see the connection of all things." Mr.
Tetley, a member of our Class of 1946, has been seeing and creating connections between contemporary and classical dance for more than 50 years, first as a dancer and then as a choreographer of international renown.
Glen Tetley not only made the show—he was a hit.
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 Michael Blackwood Productions: Glen Tetley: Pierrot's Tower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
As a result he has led an extremely varied life in dance, working with many superior talents in many places and thereby enriching the repertoires of the great dance companies all over the world with his ballets.
Glen Tetley speaks on and off camera about his inspiration, his sources, and his vision.
GLEN TETLEY: Pierrot's Tower documents one of the most significant contributors to the dance in our time.
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 deseretnews.com | 'The Rite of Spring'
"The Rite of Spring" is choreographer Glen Tetley's masterwork, according to Bronwen Curry.
Tetley's "Rite of Spring" had its world premiere in Munich with the Bavarian State Opera Ballet on April 17, 1974, according to Tetley's biography by the American Ballet Theatre.
Tetley's work is more physical and more wild than that of Nijinsky, who was the first to choreograph a piece to the Stravinsky score, said Kåge.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595053338,00.html   (846 words)

  
 TheStar.com - artsentertainment - Glen Tetley a force in the ballet world
Glen Tetley, a foremost choreographer of the 20th century and creator of ballets that bridged the classical and modern idioms, has died.
Tetley had been looking forward to a celebration of his life and work at the National Ballet's Erik Bruhn Competition on March 3 at the Four Seasons Centre.
Tetley not only enriched the repertoires of the many companies he worked with; he helped develop a generation of contemporary ballet dancers.
www.thestar.com /artsentertainment/article/176103   (716 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - Ballet great Glen Tetley dies
American choreographer Glen Tetley, who broke barriers by blending modern dance into classical ballet in his creations for the National Ballet of Canada and other companies worldwide, has died at age 80.
Acclaimed choreographer Glen Tetley served as artistic associate at the National Ballet of Canada from 1987-1989.
Tetley died of cancer on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla., about a week shy of his 81st birthday on Feb. 3.
www.cbc.ca /arts/theatre/story/2007/01/30/tetley-glen-obit.html?ref=rss   (1523 words)

  
 Choreographer Glen Tetley dies of cancer at 80 | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Tetley's manager, Christine Dobush of New York, said Monday that he died in a West Palm Beach, Fla., hospital of cancer.
Tetley, who had a long association with Houston Ballet, was here in September for the staging of Voluntaries, an elegiac signature work.
Tetley also worked as a director, leading the Netherlands Dance Theater with Hans van Manen from 1969 to 1971.
www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/dance/4509021.html   (338 words)

  
 Glen Tetley - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Glen Tetley - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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 PlaybillArts: Features: Glen Tetley
Tetley remembers the rehearsals as very intense, with the company's dancers assuaging personal grief through communal creativity.
Glen Tetley's Voluntaries, with dancers Barbara Bear and Andrew Murphy.
Glen Tetley and Phillip Broomhead in rehearsal in 1999 for Lux in Tenebris.
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 Search: Glen Tetley 80 choreographer fused ballet and modern dance @ Big Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Glen Tetley, 80; choreographer fused ballet and modern dance
Glen Tetley, an acclaimed dancer and internationally celebrated choreographer who bridged the worlds of ballet and modern dance, has died.
American choreographer Glen Tetley, who broke barriers by blending modern dance into classical ballet in his creations for the National Ballet of Canada and other companies worldwide, has died at age 80.
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 PlaybillArts: News: Glen Tetley, Giant of Modern Dance, Dies at 80
Glen Tetley, one of the late 20th century's most widely performed and influential choreographers, died at age 80 on January 26.
Born in Cleveland in 1926 and raised near Pittsburgh, Tetley studied medicine and had a stint in the Navy before embarking on a career in dance.
Tetley was one of the original members of the Joffrey Ballet when the troupe formed in 1956; over the next few years, he also performed with Martha Graham’s company, American Ballet Theater, other contemporary dance groups and New York City Opera and other contemporary dance groups.
www.playbillarts.com /news/article/5938.html   (648 words)

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