Performance database

Choreographer: Siobhan Davies
Composer: Steve Reich
Set designer: David Buckland
Costume designer: David Buckland
Lighting designer: Peter Mumford
World premiere: 27 Oct 1988, Rambert Dance Company, Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Production note: David Buckland is credited with 'design'.
Music title: Eight Lines (1979)
Music details: Live music: flutes, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, violins, viola, cello
Music note: Steve Reich's score 'Eight Lines' was originally titled 'Octet'.
Sponsors: Rambert Dance Company gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the Mercury Theatre Trust Limited towards the creation of this ballet.
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0354

Performances

Date ↿⇂ Programme ↿⇂ Venue ↿⇂
27 Oct 1988
Evening 		Mates | Dark Elegies | Embarque* Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
28 Oct 1988
Evening 		Mates | Dark Elegies | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
29 Oct 1988
Evening 		Mates | Dark Elegies | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
8 Mar 1989
Evening 		Mates | Hymnos | Opal Loop* | Embarque Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
9 Mar 1989
Evening 		Mates | Hymnos | Opal Loop | Embarque Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
10 Mar 1989
Evening 		Mates | Hymnos | Opal Loop | Embarque Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
11 Mar 1989
Evening 		Mates | Hymnos | Opal Loop | Embarque Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
21 Mar 1990
Evening 		Embarque | Longevity* | Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain | Strong Language Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
12 Apr 1991
Evening 		Doubles | Plain Song* | Embarque Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
23 Apr 1991
Evening 		Slippage* | Soda Lake | Dealing with Shadows | Embarque Riverside Studios, London
24 Apr 1991
Evening 		Slippage | Soda Lake | Dealing with Shadows | Embarque Riverside Studios, London
25 Apr 1991
Evening 		Slippage | Soda Lake | Dealing with Shadows | Embarque Riverside Studios, London
26 Apr 1991
Evening 		Slippage | Soda Lake | Dealing with Shadows | Embarque Riverside Studios, London
27 Apr 1991
Matinee 		Soda Lake | Dealing with Shadows | Embarque Riverside Studios, London
27 Apr 1991
Evening 		Slippage | Soda Lake | Dealing with Shadows | Embarque Riverside Studios, London
11 Oct 1991
Evening 		Four Elements | Completely Birdland* | Embarque Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
12 Oct 1991
Evening 		Four Elements | Completely Birdland | Embarque Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
13 Oct 1993
Evening 		Spirit* | Land* | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
14 Oct 1993
Matinee 		Spirit | Land | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
14 Oct 1993
Evening 		Spirit | Land | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
15 Oct 1993
Evening 		Spirit | Land | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
16 Oct 1993
Evening 		Spirit | Land | Embarque Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
6 May 1999
Evening 		Embarque | Four Scenes | The Golden Section* Derngate, Northampton