There will be a Memorial Celebration of the life of acclaimed choreographer Glen Tetley, this Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 2:00PM. The memorial will take place at the New York Public Library For The Performing Arts - Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center - Bruno Walter Auditorium (111 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street Lincoln Center), and is open to the public.
Press notes state, "
Glen Tetley (1926 - 2007) was one of the leading choreographers of the twentieth century. Prolific with a cache of sixty-eight ballets, Tetley created dances for most of the major companies in the world including American Ballet Theater, The Australian Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, English National Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Norwegian National Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, and Stuttgart Ballet. The early works he choreographed for Netherlands Dance Theater and Ballet Rambert have been a major influence in the artistic development of both companies having challenged conventional movement dictums. Tetley pioneered the creation of a new dance language that embraced both classical and contemporary dance. For eight years he directed his own company in New York. He was Co-Director of Netherlands Dance Theater and succeeded
John Cranko as Director of Stuttgart Ballet. From 1987 to 1989 Tetley was Artistic Associate of The National Ballet of Canada."
"As a dancer Tetley studied contemporary dance with
Hanya Holm and
Martha Graham, and trained in classical dance with Margaret Craske, Antony Tudor and at the School of American Ballet. He performed in the companies of
Hanya Holm,
Martha Graham,
Doris Humphrey,
Charles Weidman,
Jose Limon,
Pearl Lang,
John Butler and with
Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA. Additionally, Tetley was a founding member of the Joffrey Ballet and became a principal soloist of American Ballet
Theater."
In his lifetime, Tetley received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, the Prix Italia RAI prize, the Ohioana Award, the New York University Alumni Award, the Tennant Caledonia Award for the Edinburgh Festival and the German Critics Award. In April of 1997, HM The King of Norway presented Tetley with the Knight of Royal Norwegian Order of Merit for his twenty years of work with the Norwegian National Ballet. Tetley was also the subject of Michael Blackwood's documentary
Glen Tetley: Pierrot's Tower, which was broadcast in New York and in Europe. Stuttgart Ballet paid tribute to Tetley in honor of his 80th birthday in 2006, with a triple bill program of the choreographer's ballets,
Voluntaries,
Pierrot Lunaire and
The Rite of Spring, during its Winter 2006 season.
Tetley was born February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio and died on January 26, 2007 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Memorial can be made in his honor to either The American Cancer Society or the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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