Rambert Dance Company

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1930's

Roles

  • Founder Director

- Marie Rambert

  • Designer

- Nadia Benois

  • Musicians

- Hugh Bradford

- Constant Lambert

- Charles Lynch

- Angus Morrison

  • Dancers

- Alicia Markova

- Sally Gilmour

- Maude LLoyd

- Diana Gould

- Harold Turner

- William Chappell

- Hugh Laing

Numbers

  • 53 Touring Venues Inc. Mercury Theatre

Timeline

  • 1930

- The Marie Rambert dancers perform with Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina

  • 1931

- Ballet Club at Mercury Theatre: new company name, new resident theatre

  • 1935

- Ballet Rambert

  • 1936

 - BBC Broadcast: Company performs live on TV

  • 1937

- Dark Elegies: Premiere of Antony Tudor's seminal work

Works

  • Fokine

- Les Sylphides (1907/1930)

  • Petipa

- Aurora's Wedding from Sleeping Beauty (1890/1930)

  • Ashton

- Mercury (1931)

  • Nijinsky

- L'Apres-midi d'un faune (1912/1931)

  • Rambert

- Primavera (1931)

  • Tudor

- The Planets 

1940's

Timeline

  • 1940

Peter and Wolf  premiere at the Arts Theatre Cambridge

  • 1941

Daytime Performances Lunch Ballet and Tea Ballet become popular

  • 1946

First full-length production of Giselle with Sally Gilmour and Walter Gore

  • 1947

Visit Australia and New Zealand company invited to tour for 6 months, stayed 15

  • 1948

 In the Red shoe premiere Marie Rambert has a cameo in the Movie 

Works

  • Staff

Peter and the Wolf (1940)

  • Howard

Carnival of Animals (1943)

Numbers

  • 26 Dancers joined the tour
  • 12 Dancers came back
  • 15 months touring Australia and New Zealand
  • Curtain calls for Melbourne premiere

The War Years

  • The company danced everywhere: Theatres, community centres, halls, canteens
  • Performed for exhausted factory workers so they  could relax
  • Male dancers including Frank Staff were called for National Service during WW2 

1950's

Roles

  • Dancers

- John Chesworth

- Beryl Goldwyn

- Norman Morrice

- Shirley Rees

  • Designers

- Edward Burra

- Ralph Koltai

  • Choreographers

- Robert Joffrey

- Norman Morrice

Timeline

  • 1951

- Festival of Britain: Rambert participates with two new works

  • 1956

- Tour to Spain: Open-air theatres all over the country

  • 1957

- Conte Fantastique Andree Howard's final creation for Rambert

  • 1958

- Seasons at Sadler's Wells: Regularly featuring…

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