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Dark Elegies
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor
Music
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Gustav Mahler |
Choreography
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Antony Tudor
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Premiere Date
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Ballet Rambert, Duchess Theatre, London, England, February 19, 1937 |
Costumes
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After Raymond Sovey
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Lighting
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Lisa Pinkham
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ScenicDesigner
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Norman Lundin
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Dark Elegies is a one-act ballet performed by en ensemble of 12 dancers plus an onstage singer and is set to Gustav Mahler’s poignant Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children). The score, a song cycle for voice and orchestra featuring poems by Friedrich Rückert, is considered by many to be Mahler’s greatest work and was Tudor’s favorite.
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