"That Englishman Abroad": a tribute to Antony Tudor

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Dancer Antony Tudor went "abroad" to America from England in 1939 as a young man of thirty-one. He stayed abroad for his entire life. One of the many controversies that surrounded him always came from that fact; it went to the heart of Tudor as a man and as an artist. Ninette de Valois was his primary bete noire. She used the words "that Englishman abroad" to refer to him. They reflect her feelings and the British attitude toward Tudor and his "desertion" of his homeland as World War II began. The words reflect the feelings of regret of Tudor as well, but his were more complicated.

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The Enigmatic Garden: Antony Tudor's Jardin aux Lilas

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The Jardin aux Lilas was one of the favorite Tudor ballets with general audiences in London's East End in 1940's. Antony Tudor's Jardin aux Lilas is described as an exciting and engrossing theater dance of 1940's and is considered as a rare event in the dance history.

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Notes on dark elegies

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'Dark Elegies' is one of Antony Tudor's ballets that are rich and complex enough to warrant full-length studies in book form. Elegies is probably the Tudor ballet most dependent on nuance of gesture, body language, and total commitment.

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