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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.<br /> Mr. Tetley has created over 60 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, English National Ballet and The National Ballet of Canada. For these and many other companies, Mr. Tetley not only created original works but also restaged and produced existing ones.<br /> Glen Tetley had been a pre-medical student before he embarked on a career in dance. He studied modern dance with such legendary teachers as Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, and ballet with Antony Tudor and Margaret Craske. Though a late starter in dance, Tetley’s performing experience proved prodigious and eclectic. He quickly established himself as a leading male dancer performing with such companies as American Ballet Theatre, Jerome Robbins’ Ballet <span class="caps">USA</span>, the Martha Graham Dance Company as well as with 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.<br /> In 1962, Mr. Tetley gathered a small group of talented dancers to perform a program of his own choreography at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. The evening marked Mr. Tetley’s debut as a choreographer and 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, including Voluntaries, Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain, The Anatomy Lesson, Gemini, The Rite of Spring, Daphnis and Chl๖e, Revelation and Fall, Sphinx and The Tempest, his only full-evening ballet to date.<br /> 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.<br /> In February 1986, Glen Tetley choreographed Alice his first original work for The National Ballet of Canada, a commission he received from Erik Bruhn. Alice was instantly acclaimed by both critics and audiences alike and has been performed in major dance centres including New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C. and London’s Coliseum. Mr. Tetley later created La Ronde (1988), Tagore(1989) and Oracle (1994) for the National Ballet and restaged his Sphinx (1983), Voluntaries (1988), Daphnis and Chl๖e (1989) and The Rite of Spring (1992). From 1987 to 1989 Mr. Tetley was Artistic Associate to The National Ballet of Canada.<br /> In 1995 Tetley was the subject of Michael Blackwood’s documentary film, Glen Tetley: Pierrot’s Tower, broadcast in New York and in Europe. Tetley choreographed Amores for England’s Royal Ballet in April 1997 and Lux in Tenebris for Houston Ballet in May 1999.<br /> Mr. Tetley’s numerous awards and honours include the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award from the Royal Academy of Dance, The Tennant Caledonian Award, the Priz Italia <span class="caps">RAI</span>- Prize, and in the spring of 1988 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater, New York University. Mr. Tetley has also received the Order of Merit from the King of Norway.<br /> Glen Tetley continues a career as a freelance choreographer, creating new works and staging existing works on companies around the world.</p> <table> <tr> <td class="top"> <table class="zebra"> </table> </td> <td class="top three_column"> <div class="leader"> Companies</div> <a href="/companies/rambert-dance-company">RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY</a> <br> <br> <div class="leader"> Choreographed</div> <a href="/ballets/the-tempest-1979-">THE TEMPEST (1979)</a> <br> <a href="/ballets/rite-of-spring-le-sacre-du-printemps-1974-">Rite of Spring, (Le Sacre du Printemps) (1974)</a> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td class="nopad top sidebar"> <div class="box_ads"> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <div class="box_cheese"> <div class="leader"> Account </div> You're not signed in. 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