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). Dark Elegies was presented twice at the Pillow in the 1950s – the first time supervised by Tudor himself – but not seen here in nearly 60 years.
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