The genius of Antony Tudor: 5 ballets you’ll be able to watch now, in your pyjamas

An enormous thanks to New York Theatre Ballet and to Amanda McKerrow of the Antony Tudor Ballet Belief for generously permitting us to put up these Tudor ballets.

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DIANA BYER, founder and inventive director of New York Theatre Ballet, mirrored on Tudor’s legacy:

‘The influence of Antony Tudor’s work has been monumental to the event of ballet and to the coaching of dancers at New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB). Dance critic John Percival wrote: “Choreographers of major importance appear but rarely. Skilled craftsmen are common, but the man who conceives of dance in a new way and who, because of that conception, creates works of such beauty and power that the entire scope of the art is enriched – this is a special phenomenon. In our time, Antony Tudor has achieved this distinction.”

Tudor was the primary to convey the advanced psychological human expertise heart stage to ballet. His dances depict sophisticated characters and emotions. Dancer Hugh Laing notes, “You can’t be a dancer in Tudor ballets. Everything is based on classical technique, but it must look non-existent… He may want…four pirouettes. The turns are part of a phrase that may be saying, ‘I love you, Juliet,’ and you must not interrupt that phrase to take a fourth position preparation, because then you are paying attention to yourself as a dancer and not Juliet.”

I studied with Mr. Tudor at Juilliard, and his shut colleague and good friend, Margaret Craske, was NYTB’s Ballet Grasp and Coach till her passing. Sallie Wilson, certainly one of the good Tudor ballet interpreters, then grew to become NYTB’s Ballet Grasp. For over 20 years, she was unrelenting, guaranteeing that every dancer understood the position from the inside out, preventing to have every position accomplished with simplicity and reality. How extremely fortunate everybody in NYTB was to have Margaret Craske and Sallie Wilson of their inventive life, and the way honored all of us are to have the ballets of Antony Tudor in our repertory.’

And AMANDA MCKERROW shared this private perception:

‘One of the many things that I think defines the genius of Mr. Tudor’s choreography is the best way he might form the characters in his ballets by creating motion and gesture that authenticated every of them. It was a revelation to me once I labored with Mr. Tudor that if I simply danced the steps as they got I'd not simply turn into the character, I'd truly expertise an emotional response applicable to that character. As he mentioned to me in a rehearsal early on in my growth because the Youthful Sister in Pillar of Fireplace “ Don’t try to act like a little girl, just dance the choreography that I have given you and you will be a little girl.” This is without doubt one of the many presents of reality given to me by Mr Tudor, and it brings me nice happiness as a stager to go his ballets on to new generations of dancers and witness their very own moments of revelation by his work.’

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JARDIN AUX LILAS

ROMEO & JULIET (PAS DE DEUX)

DARK ELEGIES

JUDGMENT OF PARIS

SOIRÉE MUSICALE

[Please note: these videos were available until April 28, 2020.]