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STUTTGART BALLET. This is the group's first U.S. appearance since the death of principal Architect-Director John Cranko in 1973. American Choreographer Glen Tetley, a former A.B.T. and Martha Graham dancer, was the company's unanimous choice to succeed Cranko. But whereas Cranko's story ballets and acrobatic choreography strengthened the theatrical aspect of Stuttgart, Tetley's blend of classical and modern dance vocabulary may add more plasticity of movement. His Voluntaries and his new Daphnis and Chloé will be given U.S. premieres during May-July visits to New York's Metropolitan Opera and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center.