The Warrior
Choreographer:
Marie Rambert, Harold Turner
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Costume designer:
William Chappell
World premiere:
9 Mar 1928, Pupils of Madame Marie Rambert, The Arts Theatre Club, London
Work note:
The earliest programme for this solo in the Rambert Archive is for the charity performance 'A Triple Bill in aid of the Royal Waterloo Hospital'. Marie Rambert's students performed Ballet-Divertissement in between two one-act plays.
Production note:
Chappell is credited with the costume design in an article in 'The Dancing Times', July 1930, p341.
Number of dancers:
1 man
Music details:
Live music: piano
Source:
Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue:
WORK/0017
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 |
10 Mar 1928 Time unknown |
Russian Dance | Flight of Swans | The Warrior | Followers of Night | Mannequin | Mannequin and Her Beau | Nymphs and Shepherds | Mercury Theatre, London |
10 Jul 1928 Matinee |
Leda* | The Warrior* | Apollo Theatre, London |
8 Oct 1928 Evening |
Prelude: Movements from French Suite No. 5 (Bach) | Queen Swan | The Warrior | Chinese Porcelain | Lusinghe piu care (Handel) | I attempt from Love's sickness to fly (Purcell) | Fairest Isle (Purcell) | Nymph and Shepherd | Serenade (Brahms) | Russian Court Dance* | Rus | Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich |
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 |