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Choreographer: Merce Cunningham

Composer: Erik Satie

Costume designer: Remy Charlip

Lighting designer: Sid Ellen

Rambert premiere: 20 Nov 1987, Rambert Dance Company, Theatre Royal, Glasgow

World premiere: 22 Aug 1953, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA

Production note: In the 1987 Rambert programme, Remy Charlip is credited as 'design', and Chris Komar is credited as 'Choreographer's Assistant'. Sid Ellen is credited in subsequent programmes.

Duration: 16 minutes

Number of dancers: 6 dancers

Music title: Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1903)

Music details: Live music: 2 pianos

Sponsors: The re-mounting of this work was made possible by a 1987 DEC Dance Award from Digital Equipment Company Ltd.

Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive

Archive catalogue: WORK/0348

Performances

Date ↿⇂	Programme ↿⇂	Venue ↿⇂
20 Nov 1987 Evening	Dancing Day \| Dutiful Ducks \| Septet^* \| Strong Language	Theatre Royal, Glasgow
8 Jun 1988 Evening	Dangerous Liaisons \| Septet \| Dark Elegies \| Mates^*	Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
21 Oct 1988 Evening	Septet \| Hymnos^* \| Soldat^* \| Strong Language	Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
22 Oct 1988 Evening	Septet \| Hymnos \| Soldat \| Strong Language	Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
2 Mar 1989 Evening	Septet \| Hymnos \| Dark Elegies \| Cinema^*	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
3 Mar 1989 Evening	Septet \| Hymnos \| Dark Elegies \| Cinema	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
4 Mar 1989 Evening	Septet \| Hymnos \| Dark Elegies \| Cinema	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
12 May 1989 Evening	Septet \| Soda Lake \| Sounding^* \| Cinema	Nottingham Playhouse
13 May 1989 Evening	Septet \| Soda Lake \| Sounding \| Cinema	Nottingham Playhouse
9 Feb 1990 Evening	Septet \| Sounding \| Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain \| Currulao^*	Anthony Hopkins Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold
22 Nov 1991 Evening	Sounding \| Island to Island^* \| Septet \| Wildlife	Apollo Theatre, Oxford
23 Nov 1991 Evening	Sounding \| Island to Island \| Septet \| Wildlife	Apollo Theatre, Oxford

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