Performances

Performances

Overture

Music note: Musical overture before the performance

Performers

Piano Angus Morrison

Passionate Pavane

Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Composer: John Dowland
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer Sylvia Hayden
Dancer Frank Staff
Dancer David Paltenghi
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'

Panaderos

Choreographer: Elsa Brunelleschi
Premiere type: World premiere
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer Sara Luzita
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'

Shepherd's Wooing

Choreographer: George Balanchine
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer Sally Gilmour
Dancer David Paltenghi
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'

Prelude

Choreographer: Michel Fokine
Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer Peggy van Praagh
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'; likely to be from 'Les Sylphides' as the music is by Chopin

Valse

Choreographer: Michel Fokine
Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer Sally Gilmour
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'; likely to be from 'Les Sylphides' as the music is by Chopin

Mazurka

Choreographer: Michel Fokine
Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer David Paltenghi
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'; likely to be from 'Les Sylphides' as the music is by Chopin

Pas de Deux

Choreographer: Michel Fokine
Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Pas de deux Sally Gilmour
Pas de Deux Frank Staff
Piano Angus Morrison
Performance note: Performed as part of 'Divertissement'; likely to be from 'Les Sylphides' as the music is by Chopin

Interlude

Music note: Musical interlude between dances

Performers

Piano Angus Morrison

Death and the Maiden

Choreographer: Andrée Howard
Composer: Franz Schubert
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

Dancer Elisabeth Schooling
Dancer David Paltenghi
Dancer Sylvia Hayden
Dancer Monica Boam
Dancer Peter Franklin-White
Dancer Rosemary Young
Piano Angus Morrison

Interlude

Music note: Musical interlude between dances

Performers

Piano Angus Morrison

Les Masques (ou, Changement de Dames)

Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

A Personage Frank Staff
His Lady Friend Sally Gilmour
His Wife Elisabeth Schooling
Her Lover Walter Gore
One of Two Girls in Black Joan McClelland
One of Two Girls in Black Olivia Sarel
One of Three Ladies with Fans Charlotte Bidmead
One of Three Ladies with Fans Sylvia Hayden
One of Three Ladies with Fans Monica Boam
Piano Angus Morrison
Source: Programme for 7 May 1941 in the Rambert Archive