Rambert Flashcards
QUESTION
What year was Marie Rambert born
ANSWER
1888 in Warsaw Poland
QUESTION
Who and in what year was she inspired to take up dance
ANSWER
1904 and Isadora Duncan
QUESTION
what year did she go to Paris to study medicine
Why couldn’t she study medicine
ANSWER
1905
She was too young so continued to study dance
Question
What did she do in 1910
ANSWER
She enrolled in Jacques Dalcroze’s school of Eurhytmics
He then later recommended her to Diaghilev when he needed her to help Nijinsky teach ballet Russes the complex rhythm of the rite of spring
QUESTION
What year did she join ballet russes
ANSWER
1912
QUESTION
What year did she move to England
How did she support herself
Who did she marry in 1918
ANSWER
1914
Teaching dance on schools and privately
Ashley dukes the English playwright
QUESTION
What year did she open her own school
What year did they first perform and in what
ANSWER
1920
1926 in her ex students Frederick Ashton’s work a tragedy of fashion officially as the Ballet club
QUESTION
what did her husband buy her for her school and company
What year did they change their name and to what
ANSWER
1928 he bought her the Mercury Theatre Whig became her company’s permanent home for the next 30 years
1935 to Ballet Rambert
QUESTION
What did her company do during the First World War
What did they perform in 1958
ANSWER
They performed as a touring company to help raise morale during the war
They performed in Norman Morrice’s Two Brothers as the company returned to innovative new works
QUESTION
What year did Morrice go to America to study dance
Who did he study with
ANSWER
1962
Martha Graham
QUESTION
what year was Morrice appointed associate artistic director
What did he do as director
What new aims did he introduce
ANSWER
1966
He made the company small scale consisting of 18 dancers. Introduced Graham technique to the dancers and returned to the company’s original ethos
The new aims where to encourage new works, preserve old repertoire and tour in London and abroad
QUESTION
What year did Morrice bring over new choreographers
Who did he bring over
What work did he create
ANSWER
1967
Glen Tetley
Pierrot Lunaire
QUESTION
Who took over as artistic director in 1974
What did he do
What year did Bruce leave the company to freelance
ANSWER
John Chesworth
Continued Morrice’s policies
1979
QUESTION
Who took over in 1981
Why was 1981 a big year for the company
What works were created and by who
ANSWER
Robert North
Because he bought more diversity to the company creating works that were accessible to the audience as he worked with new choreographers who each bought something to the company
Lonely town lonely street (North, Jazz piece) Ghost dances ( Bruce, Graham contemporary) Soda lake ( Alston, Cunningham contemporary)
QUESTION
Who took over after north and in what year
What year did he change the name of the company and to what
Why was he forced to step down and in what year
ANSWER
Alston
1987 - Rambert dance company
1992 because his works weren’t accessible to the audience as they were very abstract. His works were to ahead of its time for an audience who wanted something more narrative
