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The genius of Antony Tudor: 5 ballets you'll be able to watch now, in your pyjamas

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You can view the original post here An enormous thanks to New York Theatre Ballet and to Amanda McKerrow of the Antony Tudor Ballet Belief for generously permitting us to put up these Tudor ballets. Elena Zahlmann and Kyle Coffman of New York Theatre Ballet in Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas (Photograph: Julieta Cervantes) With life as we all know it on ‘pause’ on this lethal struggle towards the novel coronavirus, bless NYTB and different dance corporations who're digging in to their archives to brighten up our pressured isolation. DIANA BYER, founder and inventive director of New York Theatre Ballet, mirrored on Tudor’s legacy: ‘The influence of Antony Tudor’s work has been monumental to the event of ballet and to the coaching of dancers at New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB). Dance critic John Percival wrote: “Choreographers of major importance appear but rarely. Skilled craftsmen are common, but the man who conceives of dance in a new way and who, beca...