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Glen Tetley, 80, Pioneering Choreographer, Dies - New York Times |
 | | 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 recalled how “the extreme moderns,” as he called them, criticized him for using pirouettes and arabesques in “Pierrot Lunaire,” his first acclaimed piece, later popularized by Rudolf Nureyev and set to Schoenberg’s Expressionist song cycle. |
 | | 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 (937 words) |
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