TETLEY, GLEN

born Feb. 3, 1926, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. American dancer, choreographer, and ballet director. Tetley began dancing in 1945, training with Hanya Holm, Helen Platova, and others. He performed in Broadway musicals as well as with companies as diverse as the American Ballet Theatre and the Martha Graham Company. His first choreography was for Pierrot Lunaire, and it gained him a position as guest artist with the Netherlands Dance Theatre (1962), of which he soon became the artistic codirector. In 1969 he formed his own company, only to return to the Netherlands Dance Theatre as director. From 1974 to 1976 Tetley served as director of the Stuttgart Ballet. Some of his best-known works are Mutations (1970), Le Sacre du Printemps (1974), Daphnis and Chloe (1975), The Tempest (1979), Contredances (1979), Summer's End (1980), Dances of Albion, Dark Night: Glad Day (1980), Murderer Hope of Women (1983), and Revelation and Fall (1984).