Performance database

Choreographer: Richard Alston
Set designer: Howard Hodgkin
Costume designer: Howard Hodgkin
Lighting designer: Peter Mumford
World premiere: 9 Oct 1981, Ballet Rambert, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne
Production note: In the programme, Howard Hodgkin is credited as 'design'.
Music title: Six Notturni for Voices and Basset Horns (1783); movements from Divertimenti for Basset Horns (1783)
Music details: Live music: 2 sopranos, bass, 3 basset horns
Sponsors: This ballet has been specifically commissioned for Ballet Rambert by the Newcaste Upon Tyne City Council for the Newcastle Festival '81. Financial assistance from Capital & Counties (Property) Limited and Marks & Spencer Limited is gratefully acknowledged.
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0307

Performances

Date Programme Venue
9 Oct 1981
Evening
Rainbow Ripples | Unsuitable Case | Night Music* | Ghost Dances Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne
16 Oct 1981
Evening
Lonely Town, Lonely Street* | Night Music | Ghost Dances Grand Theatre Leeds
11 Mar 1982
Evening
Night Music | Berlin Requiem* Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
6 May 1982
Evening
Pribaoutki* | Night Music | Ghost Dances Theatre Royal, Brighton
28 Jun 1982
Evening
Night Music | The Kitchen Table* | Unsuitable Case | Pribaoutki ('A Telling') Theatre Royal, Bristol