Festival name:
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
Winter Night
Choreographer:
Walter Gore
Composer:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Company:
Ballet Rambert
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
Dancer | Ann Horn |
Dancer | David Poole |
Dancer | Patricia Dyer |
Dancer | Irene Siegfried |
Dancer | Valerie Marsh |
Dancer | Thelma Litster |
Dancer | Alison Norwood |
Dancer | Naomi Benari |
Dancer | Sylvia Singleton |
Dancer | Sheila Alletson |
Dancer | June Sandbrook |
Dancer | John Chesworth |
Dancer | Norman Morrice |
Dancer | Ronald Yerrell |
Dancer | Mario de Marigny |
Conductor | Joseph Vandernoot |
Solo Piano | Bernard Roberts |
The Dying Swan
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
Dancer | Alicia Markova |
Conductor | Joseph Vandernoot |
Performance note:
Markova performed this solo choreographed by Michel Fokine (1905) to music by Saint-Saens.
Façade
Choreographer:
Frederick Ashton
Composer:
William Walton
Company:
Ballet Rambert
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
Scotch Rhapsody | Patricia Ashworth |
Scotch Rhapsody | Thelma Litster |
Scotch Rhapsody | Norman Morrice |
Yodelling Song | Patricia Dyer |
Yodelling Song | Norman Dixon |
Yodelling Song | John Chesworth |
Yodelling Song | Ronald Yerrell |
Polka | Selma Seigertsz |
Valse | Valerie Marsh |
Valse | Alison Norwood |
Valse | Gillian Martlew |
Valse | Naomi Benari |
Popular Song | Norman Dixon |
Popular Song | John Chesworth |
Tango Pasodoble | Ann Horn |
Tango Pasodoble | Colin Poole |
Tarantella Sevillana | Ensemble |
Conductor | Joseph Vandernoot |
L'Après-midi d'un faune
Choreographer:
Vaslav Nijinsky
Composer:
Claude Debussy
Company:
Ballet Rambert
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
The Faun | Milorad Miskovitsch |
The Nymph | Alicia Markova |
Conductor | Joseph Vandernoot |
Performance note:
The programme lists only the two main characters; it is unclear whether Ballet Rambert dancers performed the other nymphs.
Les Sylphides
Choreographer:
Michel Fokine
Composer:
Frédéric Chopin
Company:
Ballet Rambert
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
Nocturne | Alicia Markova |
Nocturne | Milorad Miskovitsch |
Nocturne | Noreen Sopwith |
Nocturne | Patricia Dyer |
Nocturne | Ann Horn |
Nocturne | Gillian Martlew |
Nocturne | Patricia Ashworth |
Nocturne | Selma Seigertsz |
Nocturne | Thelma Litster |
Nocturne | Valerie Marsh |
Nocturne | Valma Briggs |
Nocturne | Alison Norwood |
Nocturne | Naomi Benari |
Nocturne | Sylvia Singleton |
Nocturne | Sheila Alletson |
Nocturne | June Sandbrook |
Nocturne | Olwen Hought |
Nocturne | Jennifer Kelly |
Valse | Patricia Dyer |
Mazurka | Milorad Miskovitsch |
Prelude | Alicia Markova |
Mazurka | Noreen Sopwith |
Grande Valse | Alicia Markova |
Grande Valse | Milorad Miskovitsch |
Final | Ensemble |
Conductor | Joseph Vandernoot |
Source:
Photocopy of the programme for 10-15 July 1956 in the Rambert Archive