Performance database

Choreographer: Mark Baldwin
Composer: Gavin Higgins
Set designer: Michael Howells
Costume designer: Michael Howells
Lighting designer: Sid Ellen
World premiere: 15 Feb 2012, Rambert Dance Company, His Majesty's Theatre
Work note: Mark Baldwin's modern-day take on Valsav Nijinsky's 'L'Après-midi d'un faune' (1912).
Production note: The programme credits Michael Howells as 'design'.
Music title: What Wild Ecstasy (2012)
Music details: Live music: chamber orchestra: flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling cor anglais), clarinet in Bb, bass clarinet in Bb, bassoon (doubling contra-bassoon), horn in F, trumpet in C (doubling flugel horn), trombone, percussion, piano, harp, 2 violins
Music commissioned by Rambert: Yes
Sponsors: The score was commisioned as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 scheme.
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0466