Performance Database

Choreographer: Michel Fokine
Staged by: Tamara Karsavina
Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
Set designer: Léon Bakst (after)
Rambert premiere: 30 Jun 1930, Marie Rambert Dancers, Lyric Hammersmith, London
World premiere: 19 Apr 1911, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, France
Work note: According to author Lionel Bradley, the Marie Rambert Dancers first performed this duet in the second week of the Lyric Hammersmith season, 23 June-5 July 1930. The Rambert Archive does not have a programme for this premiere.
Production note: The costumes were after Bakst's originals for the Ballets Russes.
Number of dancers: 1 woman, 1 man
Music title: Invitation to the dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz) (1841)
Music details: Live music: piano
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive; Bradley, L. 'Sixteen Years of Ballet Rambert' (Hinrichsen Edition Ltd, 1946).
Archive catalogue: WORK/0032