Antony Tudor

The branches are from Connecticut, but Martha Clarke is in hell. Or, she's in paradise. Sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference. On stage, half a dozen dancers preparing for a new staging of The Garden of Earthly Delights wave bare tree branches...

"She's a snake," says former ballerina Yvonne Mounsey, describing the Siren in George Balanchine's 1929 ballet "Prodigal Son," a role that ranks as classical ballet's most fearsome dominatrix. In 1950, Balanchine restaged the work for New York City Ballet...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Somewhere in the middle of "Citizen," the very peculiar but fascinating new ballet by Lauri Stallings for American Ballet Theatre, the house lights come on and a random set of people in street clothes suddenly wander onstage,...

MOVIES ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO. Platonic friends (Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks), strapped for cash, decide to make an adult film. Opens Friday THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY. A teen girl learns her parents made a pact with the devil to save her, and...

Christina Noelle To purchase a copy of the book: Urban Loft: How Chicago Redefined the Architecture For more information: www.chicagourbanloft.com Joffrey Ballet Antony Tudor Centennial February 20 - March 2, 2008 Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt...

Donald Mahler is at work in the Joffrey Ballet studio rehearsing the revival of Antony Tudor's "Dark Elegies." He spies a certain image, a flowing of the arms raised in a supplicating, U-shaped arch. Some of the dancers move their arms in distinct...

Those lucky, pampered ballerinas -- bouquets at their bows, adoring fans, even heat in the studio in the dead of winter. Well, maybe not always that last. If proof were needed that everything is not so beautiful at the ballet, it's in the story of Nina...

September 10 Andrea Del Conte Danza Espana. "Flamenco!" with Marco De Ana, Thalia Spanish Theatre, $30, $27 seniors and students, $25 Fridays. Through Oct. 8 113 New Ballet Choreographers. Newly commissioned ballets by emerging choreographers Tom...

Whether availing themselves of other dance traditions or giving shape to a post-9/11 state of mind, choreographers this year have been looking around themselves: a sign of health. Ballet grew eclectic after years of responding narrowly to its legacy....

EVER SINCE Louis XIV introduced ballet to the French court in the 17th century, it has had elitist connotations. Although choreographers and dancers have rarely been of royal blood or noble heritage, many Americans still regard the art as snobbish. Anyone...

Add Antony Tudor to the list of 20th Century choreographers whose works the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago is able to master. For the final, repertory week of its spring engagement in the Auditorium Theatre, the company has produced a smashing rendition of...

The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago calls this program "Masterworks," a case of elegant understatement. This trio of gems provide a stylistic journey through much of 20th Century ballet. Antony Tudor's 1936 "Jardin Aux Lilas" is an early masterpiece by the...