Swan Lake (dances from)
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
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
Performances
Date ↿⇂ | Programme ↿⇂ | Venue ↿⇂ |
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9 Mar 1928 Matinee |
Russian Dance* | Flight of Swans | The Warrior* | Chinese Dance | The Top* | Followers of Night | Cygnets* | Menuet* | Mannequin | Pas de Deux* | Mazurka* | Doll* | Nymphs and Shepherds | A la ''Biches''* | Mazurka Finale* | The Arts Theatre Club, London |
9 Mar 1928 Evening |
Russian Dance* | Flight of Swans | The Warrior* | Chinese Dance | The Top* | Followers of Night | Cygnets* | Menuet* | Mannequin | Pas de Deux* | Mazurka* | Doll* | Nymphs and Shepherds | A la ''Biches''* | Mazurka Finale* | The Arts Theatre Club, London |
21 Dec 1928 Evening |
Danse Chinoise | Columbine | Variation | Variation | Cygnets | Colibri | Fée Dragée | Blue Bird | Variation | Red Riding Hood | La Pomme d'Or (The Temptation) | Nymphs and Shepherds (Suite de Danses) | Mannequin and her Beau | Rigaudon* | Polka* | The Russian Peasant* | Warrior | Century Theatre, London |
20 Apr 1931 Evening |
Les Sylphides | Le Cricket | Adagio from Lac des Cygnes | L'Après-midi d'un faune* | Gavotte Sentimentale | The Circus Girl* | Scherzo* | La Belle Ecuyère* | Mazurka des Hussars | Mars and Venus | Mercury Theatre, London |
15 Jun 1931 Evening |
Les Sylphides | Mars and Venus | Waterloo and the Crimea* | L'Après-midi d'un faune | Gavotte Sentimentale | Russian Pedlar | La Belle Ecuyère | Variation from ''Swan Lake'' | Circus Dance | Mannequin | Farrucca | Mademoiselle Maupin | Mazurka Finale | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
22 Jun 1931 Evening |
Carnaval | Le Boxing | Waterloo and the Crimea | Mercury* | Pavane | Russian Peasant | La Belle Ecuyère | Variation from ''Swan Lake'' | Blue Bird | Mannequin | Mademoiselle de Maupin | Mazurka Finale | Lyric Hammersmith, London |
12 Nov 1931 Evening |
Mercury | Cross-Garter'd* | Lady of Shalott* | Lac des Cygnes | Mercury 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 |
19 Mar 1939 Evening |
Dances from ''Lac des Cygnes'' | Paris-Soir* | Death and the Maiden | Death and the Maiden | Capriol Suite | Mercury Theatre, London |
16 Nov 1944 Matinee |
Swan Lake (Act II) | The Fugitive* | Czernyana | Royal County Theatre, Bedford |
5 Nov 1946 Evening |
Mermaid | Confessional | Concerto Burlesco* | Swan Lake, Act II | King's Theatre, London |
5 May 1947 Evening |
Swan Lake (Act 2) | Plaisance* | Les Masques | Façade (the original version) | Theatre Royal, Bristol |
29 Oct 1952 Evening |
Swan Lake Act II | Movimientos* | The Lilac Garden | Czerny-ana | Arts Theatre Cambridge |
20 May 1954 Evening |
Swan Lake Act II | Simple Symphony | The Life and Death of Lola Montez (1816-1861)* | Peter and the Wolf (A Fable without a Moral) | Oxford Playhouse |
7 May 1956 Evening |
Swan Lake (Act II) | Winter Night | Judgment of Paris | Coppélia (Act III)* | Arts Theatre Cambridge |
24 Sep 1956 Evening |
Swan Lake (Act II) | The Mirror* | Judgment of Paris | Coppélia (Act III) | King's Theatre, Southsea, Portsmouth |