Sun 27 Nov 1932, 9.00pm, Mercury Theatre, London
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Company:
Ballet Club
''Valse'' from Les Sylphides
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Michel Fokine
Composer:
Frédéric Chopin
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Andrée Howard |
| Dancer | Antony Tudor |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
''Fée Dragée'' from Aurora's Wedding
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Marius Petipa
Composer:
Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Pearl Argyle |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
The Shepherd's Wooing (from 'The Gods go a-begging')
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
George Balanchine
Composer:
George Frideric Handel
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Andrée Howard |
| Dancer | William Chappell |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
''Pas de Deux'' from Mr Roll's Military Quadrilles
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Antony Tudor
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Pearl Argyle |
| Dancer | Antony Tudor |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Performance note:
This guest dancer performed five solos to traditional music (except 'La Maja' to music by Granados), with Charles Lynch performing two musical interludes in between solos.
''Desperate Blues''
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Buddy Bradley
Composer:
Jerome Kern
Premiere type:
World premiere
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | William Chappell |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
A Florentine Picture
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Frederick Ashton
Composer:
Arcangelo Corelli
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| The Madonna | Marie Rambert |
| Angel | Pearl Argyle |
| Angel | Andrée Howard |
| Angel | Susette Morfield |
| Angel | Yvonne Madden |
| Angel | Nan Hopkins |
| Angel | Tamara Svetlova |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Le Spectre de la Rose
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Michel Fokine
Composer:
Carl Maria von Weber
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| A Young Girl | Pearl Argyle |
| The Rose | William Chappell |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
''Russian Peasant''
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Léonide Massine
Composer:
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Marie Rambert |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Pompette
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Frederick Ashton
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Andrée Howard |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Musical interlude
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Frederick Ashton
Music note:
Musical interlude between dances
Performers
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Mars and Venus
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Choreographer:
Frederick Ashton
Composer:
Domenico Scarlatti
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Venus | Pearl Argyle |
| Nymph | Andrée Howard |
| Nymph | Susette Morfield |
| Mars | William Chappell |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Spanish Dances: La Maja; Farucca; Malaguena; Rhapsodia Valenciana; Zapateado
Performance title:
A Special Programme
Music note:
Danced to live music
Performers
| Dancer | Iñez la Rubia |
| Piano | Charles Lynch |
Source:
Programme for 27 November 1932 (evening) in the Rambert Archive