Hugh Laing [SEP] date of death
Hugh Laing
Hugh Laing (6 June 191110 May 1988) was one of the most significant dramatic ballet dancers of the 20th-century. He danced with Marie Rambert's Ballet Club and New York City Ballet. He was the partner of choreographer Antony Tudor.
Biography.
Hugh Laing was born in Barbados in the then British West Indies. He moved to London in 1931 to study art, but soon became interested in ballet. After taking ballet classes with Marie Rambert, Margaret Craske and Olga Preobrajenska, he joined
Laing married the American ballerina Diana Adams in 1947. Laing and Adams were divorced in 1953.
Death.
Hugh Laing died of cancer, aged 77, in New York City in 1988.
External links.
- Hugh Laing and Antony Tudor papers, 1911-1988 Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library.
- Archival footage of Nora Kaye and Hugh Laing performing in Balanchine's "The Gods Go a-Begging" in 1951 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.