Rambert Dance Company

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…