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Alternative title: Le Lac des Cygnes (dances from)
Choreographer: Lev Ivanov
Composer: Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Rambert premiere: 24 Jul 1937, Ballet Rambert, Théâtre du Casino de la Jetée, Nice
World premiere: 15 Jan 1895, Imperial Russian Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia
Work note: The Rambert company performed selections from 'Swan Lake', never the full ballet. From 1928 to 1937, pas de deux, pas de trois, the cygnets pas de quatre, and other dances were performed as divertissements or with the title 'Lac des Cygnes'. According to author Lionel Bradley, the production of the complete Act II premiered on 24 July 1937 at the theatre of the Casino de la Jetée, Nice, France, with the company billed as Les Ballets Anglais de Marie Rambert.
Production note: The souvenir programme of the 1937 French tour does not list set or costume designers of the production of the complete Act II.
Revival credits: 1944 revival: Set designer: Guy Sheppard; Set designer: Ronald Wilson
1952 revival: Decor: John Browning
Music title: Swan Lake (1876)
Music details: Live music: initially piano, later a chamber orchestra
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive; Bradley, L. 'Sixteen Years of Ballet Rambert' (Hinrichsen Edition Ltd, 1946).
Archive catalogue: WORK/0092