Le Rugby
Alternative title:
Le Football
Choreographer:
Susan Salaman
Composer:
Francis Poulenc
Set designer:
Susan Salaman
Costume designer:
William Chappell
World premiere:
23 Jun 1930, Marie Rambert Dancers, Lyric Hammersmith, London
Work note:
Performed as part of 'Sporting Sketches', or as a stand-alone divertissement.
Music details:
Live music: piano
Source:
Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue:
WORK/0028
Performances
Date ↿⇂ | Programme ↿⇂ | Venue ↿⇂ |
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23 Jun 1930 Evening |
Leda and the Swan | La Belle Viennoise | Saudade do Brésil* | Mannequin | Mademoiselle de Maupin* | Our Lady's Juggler | Les Sylphides* | Capriol Suite | Russian Peasant | ''I Can't Abear a Butcher''* | Le Rugby* | Mazurka des Hussars* | Galop* | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
20 Dec 1930 Evening |
Carnaval* | Cricket* | Rugby | A Florentine Picture* | Le Spectre de la Rose | Les Sylphides | Capriol Suite | Shepherd's Hornpipe | Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' | Mannequin | Farrucca | Final Galop | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
22 Dec 1930 Evening |
Carnaval | Cricket | Rugby | A Florentine Picture | Le Spectre de la Rose | Les Sylphides | Capriol Suite | Shepherd's Hornpipe | Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' | Mannequin | Farrucca | Final Galop | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
3 Jan 1931 Evening |
Carnaval | Cricket | Rugby | A Florentine Picture | Le Spectre de la Rose | Les Sylphides | Capriol Suite | Shepherd's Hornpipe | Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' | Mannequin | Farrucca | Final Galop | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
5 Jan 1931 Evening |
Carnaval | Cricket | Rugby | A Florentine Picture | Le Spectre de la Rose | Les Sylphides | Capriol Suite | Primavera* | Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' | Mannequin | Final Galop | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
10 Oct 1931 Evening |
Les Sylphides | Songs (The Moussorgsky Vocal Quartet) | Le Rugby | Dances from ''The Three Cornered Hat'' | Capriol Suite | La Péri | Chinese Magician | Songs (The Moussorgsky Vocal Quartet) | Mars and Venus | Russian Boyard Dance | American Sailor | Mannequin | Peasants' Frolic | New Theatre, London |
31 Dec 1931 Evening |
La Péri (The Flower of Immortality) | Constanza's Lament (from ''The Good-humoured Ladies'') | Dances from ''Cross-Garter'd'' | A Florentine Picture | Dances from ''Carnaval'' | Le Rugby | Dances on a Scottish Theme | Le Lac des Cygnes | Mercury Theatre, London |
4 Feb 1932 Evening |
La Péri | Mr Roll's Military Quadrilles* | A Florentine Picture | Constanza's Lament* | Saudade do Brésil | Pompette* | Le Rugby | The Tartans (Dances on a Scottish Theme) | Les Sylphides | Mercury Theatre, London |
1 Jan 1933 Evening |
Aurora's Wedding | Prelude in D Major (Rachmaninoff) | Prelude in G Sharp Minor (Rachmaninoff) | Pavane pour une Infante Défunte* | Mercury | Menuet from ''Suite Bergamasque'' (Debussy) | Le Rugby | A Florentine Picture | Foyer de Danse | Mercury Theatre, London |
22 Apr 1934 Evening |
Paramour* | Le Rugby | Mermaid | Carnaval | Mercury Theatre, London |
6 Jan 1935 Evening |
A Florentine Picture | Constanza's Lament | American Sailor (from 'Les Matelots') | Pompette | Le Rugby | Cinderella* | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Mercury Theatre, London |
12 Jun 1936 Evening |
Our Lady's Juggler | The Descent of Hebe | Valses Nobles et Sentimentales | Capriol Suite | Le Rugby | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
13 Jun 1936 Evening |
Our Lady's Juggler | The Descent of Hebe | Valses Nobles et Sentimentales | Capriol Suite | Le Rugby | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
14 Jun 1937 Evening |
Our Lady's Juggler | Valse Romantique No. 1 (Chabrier) | L'Après-midi d'un faune | Passionate Pavane | Bluebird | The Lady of Shalott | Suite of Airs | Death and the Maiden | Valse Romantique No. 3 (Chabrier) | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
18 Jun 1937 Evening |
Foyer de Danse | Musical Interlude | The Planets | Mermaid | Musical Interlude | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Le Boxing | Death and the Maiden | Musical Interlude | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
19 Jun 1937 Evening |
Foyer de Danse | Musical Interlude | The Planets | Mermaid | Musical Interlude | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Le Boxing | Death and the Maiden | Musical Interlude | Bar aux Folies-Bergère | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
6 Jul 1940 Matinee |
Les Sylphides | Le Cricket | Le Rugby | Le Boxing | Lady into Fox | Gala Performance* | Theatre Royal, Brighton |