Leda (1928)

CHOREOGRAPHY

Frederick Ashton and Marie Rambert

MUSIC

Christoph Willibald Gluck (ballet music from Orfeo ed Euridice)

COSTUMES

William Chappell

DANCERS

Leda: Diana Gould; Zeus: Frederick Ashton; Hermes: Harold Turner; Ganymede: William Chappell; Naiades: Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Kathleen O’Connor, Irene Kinsey, Joyce Peters, Prudence Hyman

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Marie Rambert’s studio, London, June 1928
Sunshine Matinee, Apollo Theatre, London, 10 July 1928

New Stagings / Productions

Marie Rambert Dancers, 1930

NEW PRODUCTION

Marie Rambert Dancers; revised choreography by Ashton alone, under the title Leda and the Swan

COSTUMES

William Chappell and (for Ashton) Bruce Winston

DANCERS

Leda: Diana Gould; The Swan: Frederick Ashton; Zephyrs: Harold Turner, William Chappell; Nymphs: Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Prudence Hyman, Irene Kinsey, Elisabeth Schooling, Kathleen Suthers

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 25 February 1930