Undimmed lustre : the life of Antony Tudor / Muriel Topaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Topaz, Muriel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tudor, Antony, 1908-1987.

Tudor, Antony.

Choreographers--Great Britain--Biography.

Choreographers.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Life of Antony Tudor

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Summary:

Undimmed Lustre: The Life of Antony Tudor is a chronological biography of one of the most creative forces in dance of the 20th century. Born in 1908 in London, Tudor was raised in a lower middle class family on the streets of London's meat market district. Although he had no formal exposure to dance, he spent the first decade of his professional life as one of the founding members of the Ballet Rambert. In America, he became an all-important force and a prime mover in American Ballet Theatre for most of its early history.

This book, written by Muriel Topaz, student, colleague, notator, assistant, and long time friend of Tudor's, reveals the misconceptions and contradictions that have attached themselves to the artist. Based on never-before seen personal archives, correspondence, and copious interviews, this work is a wonderful resource for dance teachers and students or anyone interested in classical ballet.

Contents:

1 Growing Up: 1908-1928 1

2 The London Decade: 1929-1939, Ballet Rambert 17

3 The First Ten Years at Ballet Theatre 93

4 The 1950s 137

5 The Metropolitan Opera 171

6 The Juilliard Experiment 191

7 The Peripatetic Tudor: The 1960s 215

8 A New Ballet and Failing Health 245

9 The Last Hurrah 273

11 An Envoi 297

A Chapters 2-8: The Ballets and Critical Response to Them 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-397) and index.

ISBN:

0810841282

OCLC:

50036121