Antony Tudor

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Antony Tudor in “Gala Performance”, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941

Antony Tudor (April 4, 1909 - April 19, 1987), born William Cook, was an English choreographer, teacher and dancer who choreographed numerous ballets.

1 Biography
2 Major works
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Biography

Tudor was born in London, and began dancing professionally with Ballet Rambert in 1928. There he choreographed Cross Garter'd, Lysistrata, and The Planets, as well as his two most famous works, Lilac Garden and Dark Elegies.

In 1938, he founded the London Ballet with Agnes de Mille, only to leave shortly thereafter. He was then invited to New York as one of several choreographers who participated in the 1940 founding of Ballet Theatre, later American Ballet Theatre. There, he restaged some of his older works and went on to create Pillar of Fire and Undertow among others. He was artistic director for the Royal Swedish Ballet from 1963 to 1964 and also taught dance at the Juilliard School recurrently from 1950 on. He re-joined American Ballet Theatre to create The Leaves Are Fading (1975) and Tiller In the Fields (1978), his last work. He died in 1987.