Founded in 1978 by artistic director Diana Byer, New York Theatre Ballet has distinguished itself as the country’s most widely seen chamber ballet company, acclaimed for its reduced-scale versions of the classics (like Cinderella) and for restoring and reviving small masterworks by great choreographers. Rarely-seen dances by Antony Tudor (such as the masterful Lilac Garden) were lovingly restaged by Tudor specialist Sallie Wilson, while Gemze de Lappe has recreated many treasures by her mentor, Agnes de Mille (including an iconic sequence from Brigadoon). Donald Mahler’s Cinderella was premiered at the Pillow in 1982 by the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and it returned to its birth site more than 30 years later.
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