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 Dark Elegies) were lovingly restaged by Tudor specialists Sallie Wilson and Donald Mahler, while Gemze de Lappe has recreated many treasures by her mentor, Agnes de Mille (including an iconic sequence from Brigadoon). Trio Con Brio was created and premiered at the Pillow in 1952 but had been performed here for more than sixty years at the time of this special revival.
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