Word: tetley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...droning harangue, and Robbins' setting looks like a Balanchine copybook. The most ambitious sequence is a pas de trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo San Goh that in their lengthy constructs one might discover a really good six-minute ballet...
A.B.T. also encouraged innovation. In the '40s Jerome Robbins capered through Fancy Free, De Mille created Three Virgins and Fall River Legend, and Antony Tudor made dance dramas like Pillar of Fire. More recently A.B.T. has performed works by Eliot Feld and Glen Tetley and reaped a huge hit in Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove. Chase has nurtured Americans like Cynthia Gregory and welcomed the Soviet comets, Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov. The newest arrival, Alexander Godunov, hurled himself through the rousing pas de deux from Le Corsaire as a highlight of the gala...