Tetley, Glen (1926-2007)

US choreographer and dancer. He was the first choreographer to attempt the blending of ballet with modern dance idioms without strict adherence to the conventions of either, as in his first major work, Pierrot lunaire (1962), set to music by Arnold Schoenberg. Closely associated with the Netherlands Dance Theatre throughout the 1960s, he was later director of the Stuttgart Ballet (1974-76), and often worked with the Ballet Rambert, as with his The Tempest (1979).

As a dancer, Tetley performed with Martha Graham 1957-59; the American Ballet Theater in 1960; and Jerome Robbins' company Ballets: USA in 1961. His ballets include The Anatomy Lesson (1964), Mutations (1970, with Hans van Manen), and Summer's End (1980). In 1986 he staged Alice, based on Lewis Carroll's Wonderland stories, for the National Ballet of Canada, subsequently becoming the company's associate artistic adviser (1987-89). Alice was performed in every major dance centre in the wor1d, including New York's Metropolitan Opera House and London's Coliseum.