Performance Database

Choreographer: Sally Owen
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Set designer: Sally Owen
Costume designer: Sally Owen
Lighting designer: Sid Ellen
World premiere: 5 Feb 1981, Ballet Rambert, Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Work note: First performed on 17 February 1980 by Ballet Rambert dancers as part of the 1980 Dance Umbrella Festival at Riverside Studios, London. The work was subsequently taken into the main repertoire.
Production note: In the programme, Sally Owen is credited as 'design'.
Music title: Sheep May Safely Graze (1713)
Music details: Live music: piano
Sponsors: Ballet Rambert is deeply grateful to the Rt. Hon Lord Baron George Strauss and Lady Patricia Strauss for making it possible for this work to join the repertoire.
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive, and the Dance Umbrella Archive online
Archive catalogue: WORK/0301

Performances

Date Programme Venue
5 Feb 1981
Evening 		Landscape | Paper Sunday | Figures of Wind* | Nuthouse Stomp Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
10 Feb 1981
Evening 		Preludes and Song | Paper Sunday | Room to Dance* | Nuthouse Stomp Haymarket Theatre, Leicester