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Choreographer: Andrée Howard, Susan Salaman
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Set designer: Andrée Howard
Costume designer: Andrée Howard
World premiere: 4 Mar 1934, Ballet Club, Mercury Theatre, London
Work note: Ballet in four scenes based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy story 'The Little Mermaid'.
Production note: In the programme for 1934, Andrée Howard is credited as 'Costumes'; in the programme for 1939, with 'Costumes and Setting'.
Music title: Introduction et Allegro (1907); Alborada del Gracioso from 'Miroirs' (1905)
Music details: Live music: piano, or in early performances, piano and harp
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0069