Produced by: George Rylands
Musical director: Constant Lambert
Players: Lydia Lopokova, Peter Hannen, Geoffrey Toone, George Rylands, Donald Beves, Michael Redgrave, Robert Eddison, Wynyard Brow
‘Follow Your Saint’: The Passionate Pavane
MUSIC
John Dowland, arranged by Constant Lambert (from Lacrymae, or Seven Teares, figured in seven passionate Pavans, with divers other Pavans, Galliards and Almands, 1605)
COSTUMES
William Chappell
DANCERS
The Lady: Lydia Lopokova; The Suitors: Frederick Ashton, Harold Turner
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Opera House, Blackpool, 29 July 1929
Duke of York’s Theatre, London, 19 September 1929
PLAYERS
Excerpts from Comus, a Masque by John Milton
The action concludes with a dance to music by Henry Purcell
Players: Comus, an Enchanter: George Rylands; The Lady: Lydia Lopokova; Elder Brother: Robert Eddison; Second Brother: Michael Redgrave
Dances on a Scotch Theme
MUSIC
William Boyce, arranged by Constant Lambert (from Eight Symphonies)
COSTUMES
William Chappell
DANCERS
The Lassie: Lydia Lopokova; Her Lads: Antony Tudor, Frederick Ashton
FRIST PERFORMANCE
The Masque presented by Arnold L Haskell, Arts Theatre Club, London, 10 December 1930
New Stagings / Productions
Camargo Society, 1931
STAGING
‘Follow Your Saint’
DANCERS
Lydia Lopokova, Frederick Ashton, William Chappell
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Camargo Society, Cambridge Theatre, London, 26 April 1931
Ballet Club, 1931
NEW PRODUCTION
Dances on a Scotch Theme; Ballet Club; called variously Dances on a Scottish Theme or The Tartans
DANCERS
The Lassie: Alicia Markova; Her Lads: Harold Turner, Frederick Ashton
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Ballet Club, London, 31 December 1931
Camargo Society, 1932
STAGING
‘Follow Your Saint’, under the title The Passionate Pavane, a dance-scena
DANCERS
Pearl Argyle, Walter Gore, William Chappell
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Camargo Society, Adelphi Theatre, London, 4 December 1932
Ballet Rambert, 1936
NEW PRODUCTION
‘Follow Your Saint’; Ballet Rambert; under the title Passionate Pavane, suite of dances
DANCERS
Maude Lloyd, Walter Gore, Frank Staff
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Mercury Theatre, London, 11 October 1936
(sometimes included in Divertissements as Trio (Lacrymae) this may have been an abbreviated version)
Nijinsky Gala Matinee, 1937
STAGING
Nijinsky Gala Matinee
DANCERS
Maude Lloyd, Frank Staff, Frederic Franklin
FIRST PERFORMANCE
His Majesty’s Theatre, London, 28 May 1937
Copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan
This listing is part of a chronology that was originally published in Vaughan’s Frederick Ashton and His Ballets (Alfred E Knopf 1976; 2nd ed., London: Dance Books, 1999) and includes new productions added since then, and up until 2007