Ballet Rambert's change
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- Created on: 26-12-22 13:38
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- Ballet Rambert's change
- Instigators for change
- Financial struggles due to touring
- New dances couldn't be created
- Amount of touring = demoralising + tiring, reflected in the standard of work
- Large scale ballets = expensive
- Graham's company was non-hierarchical & Morrice was inspired
- Nederland Dance Theatre went through similar change - Morrice & Rambert saw them perform "Pierrot Lunaire" & wanted similar thing
- Practical changes
- Reduced dancers from 33 to 17 +/- 2 guest artists, no corps de ballet, reduced orchestra
- Dancers began learning contemporary (Graham influenced) techniques
- Everyone became soloist within their own right
- Performed in smaller venues
- Anna Price & Clover Roope (ex-Graham students) helped teach Graham technique
- Key works
- Morrice wanted to preserve the best original works.
- Tudor
- "Dark Elegies" (1937)
- "Lilac Garden" (1936)
- Tudor
- Morrice wanted to preserve the best original works.
- Marie Rambert's aims in subsequent years
- Collaborations with choreographers, designers, & composers
- Contact made with the Central School of Art and Design
- Collaborations1 & 2 - provided a platform for new works by apprentice innovators
- Collaborations with choreographers, designers, & composers
- Instigators for change
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