Performance Database

Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Set designer: Hugh Stevenson
Costume designer: Hugh Stevenson
World premiere: 7 May 1933, Ballet Club, Mercury Theatre, London
Work note: A revised version was first performed on 29 October 1933.
Production note: In the programme, Hugh Stevenson is credited as 'scenery and costumes'.
Number of dancers: 1 woman, 1 man
Music title: Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
Music details: Live music: piano
Source: Programme in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0066

Performances

Date Programme Venue
7 May 1933
Evening
Les Sylphides | Pavane pour une Infante Défunte* | Atalanta of the East* | Les Masques (ou, Changement de Dames) Mercury Theatre, London
29 Oct 1933
Evening
Valse (from Les Sylphides) | The Marriage of Hebe | Pavane pour une Infante Défunte | Our Lady's Juggler* | Foyer de Danse Mercury Theatre, London