Shadowplay: the life of Antony Tudor

[Tudor, Antony] Donna Perlmutter

ISBN 10: 067083937X / ISBN 13: 9780670839377

Published by Viking, New York, 1991

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x, 420p. + 16p. photos, remainder mark bottom edge, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Biography of the ballet master.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shadowplay: the life of Antony Tudor
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067083937X
• ISBN 13: 9780670839377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Dance
  • Gay Studies
  • 1990S
  • Ballet

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Synopsis

Antony Tudor was the creator of the psychological ballet: his haunting and dramatic dances, among them "Dark Elegies", "Pillar of Fire", "Jardin aux Lilas" and "Shadowplay" helped break the mould of classical ballet. Born to a poor East End family, Tudor turned away from the fables and abstractions of other choreographers to plumb his own ambivalence about himself and his often turbulent personal relationships. In this biography, the author illuminates Tudor's struggles with the greatest figures in 20th-century dance - DeMille, Robbins, Nureyev, Balanchine, Ashton, Kirkland and others - and his longtime romance with dancer Hugh Laning and their menage-a-trois with ballerina Diane Adams. She also explores and explains the dances themselves.