A melancholy clown swings from a scaffolding pole, yearning for the moon. Created in 1962, Glen Tetley’s Pierrot Lunaire is a classic of midcentury modern dance. The Royal Ballet’s deluxe revival ...
Glen Tetley’s breakthrough dance piece was by all accounts a bracing slap across the chops for New York’s ballet fans when it premiered in 1962. With its atonal score, stark staging and muscular ...
Glen Tetley’s landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg’s atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged Sometimes the revival of an old work can make it, and us, feel revitalised: if it ...