Glen Tetley, American dancer and choreographer, was born Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio in 1926. His academic life included pre-med studies at Franklin & Marshall College and a B.S degree from New York University in 1948. Already interested in dance, he studied ballet with Antony Tudor and Margaret Craske and at the School of American Ballet. He also studied modern dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm, becoming Holm's teaching assistant as well as appearing in her Broadway shows. He was an original member of the Joffrey Ballet and performed in Ballet Theatre and Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A. From 1962-1969, he headed his own troupe, the Glen Tetley Dance Company. He choreographed in the United States for American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theater of Harlem, the Houston Ballet, and, in Toronto, for the National Ballet of Canada. Demand for his choreography, however, was stronger in Europe, working with Stuttgart Ballet (director from 1974-1976) Ballet Rambert, Netherlands Dance Theater (co-director from 1969-1971), England's Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet and others. His last work was Lux in tenebris, for the Houston Ballet in 1999. He died, age 80, in West Palm Beach, Fla. in 2007.
From the description of Glen Tetley career memorabilia, 1951-2006. 1951-2006. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 776901662
