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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