Robert Tewsley

[pville]

Can anyone elighten me on what this guy is up to? I was thrilled when he joined NYCB then he seemed to be plagued with injuries before he really established himself. It seemed he was just getting started and then left. Musgate absolutely needs him and I'm glad NYCB can get him back and to see that he is dancing alot. But it is rather strange that he's been in 3 companies over the past few years. What is he doing right now, did he ever explain why he left and is there any chance he'll come back?

[oberon]

I'm a big admirer of Tewsley and it really was a pity that injuries plagued his tenure as a Company member. His success in MUSAGETE (whether one liked the piece or not) was one of the great personal triumphs in ballet.

It's great that NYCB has brought him back for the Eifman and that he picked up GLASS PIECES and next week 4 TEMPS while he is here.

People who transplant themselves to NYC are not always happy. Christopher Wheeldon mentions in the Playbill interview how disoriented he sometimes feels here. It's a hard, noisy, dirty City and not to everyone's liking.

[papeetepatrick]

I'd been wondering about Tewsley myself. I saw 'Jewels' on Valentine's Day, 2004, and his exquisite dancing somehow is what I remember about the whole afternoon more than anything else. I haven't been able to find out where he's been, although not listed in NYCB roster.

[Giselle05]

Currently, Tewsley is dancing Roland Petit's La Chauve Souris with Alessandra Ferri in Tokyo (which explains her absence at Monday's gala- their last performance was on May 21):

La Chauve Souris click here for the schedule.

Not sure if he is currently attached to a company...

[Helene]

It took five pages of Google search and an awkward translation from a note in German on the John Cranko site to find that there was an announcement on 2 February 2006 that Tewsley would guest with the Stuttgart Ballet in Cranko's Onegin, partnering Sue Jin Kang, on 15 and 18 February 2006. It notes that he is guesting now.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...ficial%26sa%3DN

Which led me to...

According to the "Where Are They Now?" web-page on the National Ballet of Canada Nutcracker page listing the dancers who performed in the 1995 premiere of Kudelka's version, "[h]e is currently an independent dancer living in London, England."

http://www.national.ballet.ca/TheNutcracker/about/where.html

According to the New National Theatre Ballet Tokyo website, Tewsley was cast as Johann in Roland Petit's La Chauve-souris ("The Bat") this past weekend (May 19-21) with Alessandra Ferri as Bella.

http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/season/s298e/s298e.html

In March/April 2006, he is listed on the La Scala site as having been cast as the Prince in performances of Nureyev's Cenerentola ("Cinderella") with Marta Romagna.

http://www.teatroallascala.org/public/LaSc...pera/index.html

As a side note, Denis Matvienko and Benjamin Pech are dancing Albrecht (listed as "Albert") with the New National Theatre Ballet, Tokyo at the end of June. Next season, Zakharova/Uvarov and Chernenko/Matvienko are scheduled for Raymonda, Zakharova/Uvarov for Swan Lake, Cojocaru in Ashton's Cinderella (no partner listed yet), Matvienko in Sleeping Beauty (partner TBD), Lucarra/Pierce in Roland Petit's Coppelia, and Zakharova/Uvarov and Matvienko/partner TBD in the Petipa/Gorsky Don Quixote.

Tewsley and Ferri are scheduled to reprise their roles in Il pipistrello ("The Bat") at La Scala in September 2006:

http://www.teatroallascala.org/public/LaSc...pera/index.html

Tewsley is listed as on the roster of men for the 11th World Ballet Festival this August. (It's quite a line-up for two programs of ballets, to be announced in June.)

http://www.nbs.or.jp/english/stages/0608_wbf.html

Following is a link to another Google translation of an interview in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten from 14 February 2006, just before his two performances as Onegin in Stuttgart:

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%...n&hl=en&ie=UTF8

If the translation link from the Google doesn't work, here's the link to the original in German, which can be run through an online translator, like www.altavista.com/babelfish:

http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/stn/...htag=2006-02-14

It's worth a read. He has an unusual perspective having danced with a number of companies. He mentions a Raymonda and a contemporary ballet in Japan. He also notes that he has a garden business in London with a friend.

[papeetepatrick]

Well, I feel a bit guilty about that labour you did, Helene, but now I will do my own five pages before stopping! Really appreciated it, and was interested in what I could wrest from that indeed 'awkward translation.' Since this is my first online German translation, I may have some difficulty getting 'new york town center clench' out of mind when I go there.

I think I can see why his dancing impressed me so much in 'Emeralds'. It was quiet and had no brashness, but was elegant, it definitely seemed 'English.' Not like what I've gotten used to at NYCB over the years, but not pallid, tired or bland, so seeing him there was an unusual pleasure. As I recall, his schedule was not nearly as full as other male principles, at least not like Hubbe as an extreme example, but his decisions all make sense. I'm just glad I got to see him that day, and hope he will guest at NYCB some more.

Thanks both.

[Helene]

I was about to throw my hands up and quit. I was very lucky to get one clue that led to all of the others.

[bart]

Very interesting inteview in the Stuttgart paper. Thanks, helene, for your fluency in the art of search.

Despite the often touchingly bizarre translation from the German, a sense of a man very much trying to take charge of his life came through. For example:

I stand to my decisions. I always met it, even if they are heavily pleased me - already with 18, when I after the school in London to the Royal do not clench went, but to Canada. I never believed that that was an error. Finally one learns something again and again and takes thereby a new direction of its life

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I too was confused by the "clench" -- imagining references to extremely modern choreography -- until I came across references to the "Royal clench" and the "new York town center clench."

[scherzo]

Coincidentally, just spotted this thread. For any Tewsley-spotters, he is currently guesting with BRB in their Stravinsky triple bill which I just saw. No indication in his bio of future plans, but a rather unfortunate typo: apparently, he did 'a pas de deux with Marcia Haydee, by Spunck'.

Sorry about that: someone raise the tone, quick!