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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Glen
Tetley is one of the 20th
century's most renowned and
respected choreographers.
His distinguished career has
brought him extraordinary
acclaim as a choreographer
who forged a new
contemporary dance
vocabulary, fusing classical
and modern idioms to create a
new form of artistic
expression.
Mr. Tetley has created over 50
ballets for the world's major
dance companies. The
impressive list of commissions
includes American Ballet
Theatre, the Stuttgart Ballet,
Ballet Rambert, The Royal
Ballet, the Netherlands Dance
Theatre, The Australian Ballet,
Aterballetto, the Royal Swedish
Ballet, the Norwegian National
Ballet, The Houston Ballet, the
Royal Danish Ballet, Dance
Theatre of Harlem, Deutsche
Oper Am Rhein, London Festival
Ballet (now the English National
Ballet), and The National Ballet
of Canada. For these and many
other companies, Mr. Tetley has
restaged and produced existing
works into their
repertoire.
Glen Tetley had been a medical
student before he embarked on a
career in dance. He studied
modern and classical dance with
such legendary teachers as
Hanya Holm, Martha Graham,
Antony Tudor and Margaret
Craske. He quickly established
himself as a leading male dancer
of virtuoso technique performing
with such companies as
American Ballet Theatre, Jerome
Robbins' Ballets: USA, the
Martha Graham Dance
Company as well as with Jose
Limon, John Butler, and Pearl
Lang. He was assistant to Hanya
Holm when she staged Cole
Porter's Kiss Me Kate
and he performed a show
stopping solo choreographed by
Agnes de Mille in the Broadway
musical
Juno.
In 1962, Mr. Tetley began his
first choreographic venture,
gathering a group of talented
dancers together to perform the
first program of his own
choreography at New York's
Fashion Institute of Technology,
which included the premiere of
the now classic, Pierrot
Lunaire. Since then he has
gone on to create works that are
now heralded as 20th century
classics.
Mr. Tetley has been Artistic
Director of both the Netherlands
Dance Theatre and the Stuttgart
Ballet, where he created some of
his most acclaimed
ballets.
In February, 1986, Glen Tetley
choreographed his first original
work for The National Ballet of
Canada, a commission he
received from the late Erik Bruhn.
Alice was instantly
acclaimed by both critics and
audiences alike and was the
beginning of the most artistically
creative era in the history of The
National Ballet of Canada.
Alice was performed in
every major dance center in the
wor1d, including New York's
Metropolitan Opera House, the
Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C., and London's Coliseum.
From that point Mr. Tetley was
appointed Artistic Associate to
The National Ballet of Canada,
where he remained until
1989.
Honored by the Queen Elizabeth
II Coronation Awards from the
Royal Academy of Dance, The
Tenant Caledonian Award, the
Priz Italia RAI Prize, plus
numerous other awards and
honors, Glen Tetley continues to
choreograph new works for
companies around the
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