Press Release American Ballet Theatre's Legacy of Great Commissioned Dances Is Focus of Exhibition at Library for the Performing Arts Free Symposia Focus on Antony Tudor and Agnes de Mille Hugh Laing and Nora Kaye in choreographer Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire , 1942. American Ballet Theatre has built its impressive repertory of ballet master works in large part through commissions from such leading choreographers as Antony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Mark Morris. 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, from October 24 through December 27, 1997.
Admission is free.
The Library and ABT will also present two free public symposia, one on November 7 examining the work of Antony Tudor and another on November 14 focusing on Agnes de Mille. From its first season to its latest, American Ballet Theatre has supported the development of new ballets through commissions of works by a wide variety of renowned choreographers. The Great American Goof , a dance by Eugene Loring presented in 1940 as part of the company's first program, to Othello , a 1997 ballet choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. The exhibition covers the works of established choreographers such as Tudor and de Mille, but also focuses on experiments of Robert Joffrey and Herbert Ross in the Ballet Theatre Workshop and more recent commissions by company members and modern dance choreographers. The history and artistry of these works is conveyed with materials from the archival collections of the Library and of American Ballet Theatre, most of which have never before been on public display.