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Alternative title: A Tragedy of Fashion (Reinterpretation)
Choreographer: Ian Spink
Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin
Set designer: Antony McDonald, Juliette Blondelle
Costume designer: Antony McDonald, Juliette Blondelle
World premiere: 25 May 2004, Rambert Dance Company, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Work note: This work was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Frederick Ashton's birth and was 'a contemporary reworking with reference to the original scenario' of Ashton's first ballet 'A Tragedy of Fashion' (1926), which Rambert takes as its founding work.
Music title: Sarglos (1999); Kosky Tango (1996); Gypsy Ramble (1996); Naïve Waltz (2004)
Music details: Live music: saxophone, piano and percussion (Sarglos); clarinet and strings (Kosky Tango); piano, viola and cello (Gypsy Ramble); string quartet (Naïve Waltz)
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0430