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Choreographer: Twyla Tharp

Staged by: Shelley Washington Whitman

Composer: David Byrne

Lyricist: David Byrne

Set designer: Santo Loquasto

Lighting designer: Jennifer Tipton, Malcolm Glanville

Rambert premiere: 6 May 1999, Rambert Dance Company, Derngate, Northampton

World premiere: 8 Nov 1983, Twyla Tharp Dance, Bass Concert Hall, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

Work note: 'The Golden Section' is the final section of Tharp's evening-length work 'The Catherine Wheel' (premiere: 22 September 1981).

Production note: Set and costumes based on the original designs; lighting design recreated by Malcolm Glanville.

Duration: 16 minutes

Number of dancers: 13 dancers

Music title: Five Golden Sections (1981); What a Day That Was (1981); Big Blue Plymouth (1981); Light Bath (1981)

Music details: Recorded music

Music note: Music credit reads: 'Music composed, produced and performed by David Byrne'.

Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive

Archive catalogue: WORK/0405

Date ↿⇂	Programme ↿⇂	Venue ↿⇂
6 May 1999 Evening	Embarque \| Four Scenes \| The Golden Section^*	Derngate, Northampton
7 Mar 2000 Evening	Greymatter \| Ghost Dances \| The Golden Section	Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
8 Mar 2000 Evening	Greymatter \| Ghost Dances \| The Golden Section	Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
11 Apr 2000 Evening	Greymatter \| Ghost Dances \| The Golden Section	Grand Theatre Leeds
12 Apr 2000 Evening	Greymatter \| Ghost Dances \| The Golden Section	Grand Theatre Leeds
13 Apr 2000 Evening	Greymatter \| Ghost Dances \| The Golden Section	Grand Theatre Leeds

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