Antony tudor biography

Antony Tudor, choreographer and teacher, was.
Antony Tudor (born William Cook; 4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.
Antony Tudor was a British-born American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who developed the so-called psychological ballet.

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Antony Tudor

British dancer and choreographer

Antony Tudor
Tudor in Gala Performance, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941
Born	William Cook 4 April 1908 London, England
Died	19 April 1987(1987-04-19) (aged 79) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Ashes in Woodlawn Cemetery

Antony Tudor (born William Cook; 4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer. He founded the London Ballet, and later the Philadelphia Ballet Guild in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., in the mid-1950s.

Early life and education

Tudor was born William Cook in East London, and grew up in the Finsbury area.^[1] He discovered dance accidentally. Tudor's first exposure to professional ballet was in his late teens when he first saw Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He witnessed the dancer Serge Lifar of the Diaghilev Ballet in Balanchine's Apollon Musagète in 1928. Later, the Ballets Russes would introduce him to Anna Pavlova, who further inspired his journey into the world of dance. Tudor reached out to C

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Performance Database

Date ↿⇂Dance Work ↿⇂Role ↿⇂Venue ↿⇂20 Dec 1930
Evening Cricket^* The Bowler Lyric Hammersmith, London 20 Dec 1930
Evening Carnaval^* Second Guest Lyric Hammersmith, London 22 Dec 1930
Evening Cricket The Bowler Lyric Hammersmith, London 22 Dec 1930
Evening Carnaval Second Guest Lyric Hammersmith, London 3 Jan 1931
Evening Carnaval Second Guest Lyric Hammersmith, London 3 Jan 1931
Evening Cricket The Bowler Lyric Hammersmith, London 5 Jan 1931
Evening Cricket The Bowler Lyric Hammersmith, London

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Anthony Tudor (1908-1987)

When I first started to dance professionally, the Balanchine camp and the Tudor camp could start a fight over who was the greater choreographer. As I became more knowledgeable I could see they both were great, only different. Antony Tudor's real name was William Cook and when he decided to change his name he figured he might as well take the name of the royal family.

Tudor was a dancer, choreographer and teacher. He began his ballet training with Marie Rambert in 1928, then studied with Pearl Argyle, Harold Turner and Margaret Craske. His earliest professional ballets came with his work for Rambert at the Mercury Theatre. He danced in many of his early ballets: Cross-Garter'd in 1931, Lysistrada and Adam and Eve in 1932, The Planets in 1934 and The Descent of Hebe in 1935. Most of his ballets dealt with psychological themes. He wasn't interested in ballets that were about princesses and fairies. His ballets were about people and their problems. He didn't use the classical vocabulary or the tricks that were so popular at the time.

His ballets Jardin Aux