Entertainment & Arts
Antony Tudor, British choreographer emeritus of the American Ballet Theater who was known for his ballets about real people rather than storybook characters, has died at age 79.
April 20, 1987
A haze of mystery and speculation always has surrounded the late, great British-born choreographer, Antony Tudor.
July 21, 1991
Antony Tudor, a causal and dominating presence in the world of dance whose psychologically oriented ballets explored the darker side of the human experience, died Sunday night.
April 21, 1987
At a Kennedy Center tribute in 1986, host Walter Cronkite introduced honoree Antony Tudor as “a butcher’s clerk from Britain who left the old world of European dance to create a new world of American ballet.”
Aug. 22, 1991
Hugh Laing, whose career as a dancer was so closely entwined with that of his longtime companion, choreographer Antony Tudor, that the two were considered a hyphenate in the world of ballet, died Tuesday.
May 11, 1988
Television
The early ballets of Antony Tudor were created for a stage scarcely 18-feet square--which can make them problematic in an opera house but nearly ideal for television.
April 13, 1990
A ballet’s revival in Los Angeles could be a labor of love or an obligation carried out.
March 31, 2004
Re “Shadowplay: The Life of Antony Tudor” (July 21), I was a dancer in Ballet Theatre during its first 10 years and in Tudor’s then existing and future creative ballets of that period.
Aug. 18, 1991
“Gala Performance” is a one-act ballet that Antony Tudor created 49 years ago in England to satirize the monstrous on-stage behavior of some star ballerinas.
Dec. 14, 1987