Description | Off-air recording: BBC4, 20:00, 50 mins. Documentary about the progression of Marie Rambert's company: Marie Rambert Dancers, Ballet Club, Ballet Rambert, Rambert Dance Company. With contributions from Christopher Bruce, Richard Alston, John Chesworth, Robert North, Maude Lloyd, Rafael Bonachela, Norman Morris, and Sarah Dekker, and archival footage of Marie Rambert, Frederick Ashton, and a wartime advertisement of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and Arts (CEMA) about taking ballet in factories. Extracts of dances seen in this programme are: Grinning in your Face (Bruce); Facade (Ashton); Dark Elegies (Tudor); Ghost Dances (Bruce); La Sylphide (Bournonville); Pierott Lunaire (Tetley); Cruel Garden (Bruce); Death and the Maiden (North); Pulcinella (Alston); and Wildlife (Alston). Introduced by Judith Mackrell. |