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JARDIN AUX LILAS
Dancers (from left): Hugh Laing, Maude Lloyd, Antony Tudor, and Peggy van Praagh
(Photograph from the Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.)
Synopsis:
The bittersweet theme is set in the gracious Eduardian era. A young woman betrothed to a man
she does not want to marry, mirrors the society in which power and position are uppermost. The ballet is so musically
constructed that it would seem Ernest Chausson indeed wrote it for the ballet.
Dame Marie Rambert, in whose ballet company Lilac Garden was created said of the ballet: “The interplay of feelings
between these characters was revealed in beautiful dance movements and groupings, with subtle changes of expression,
which made each situation clear without any recourse to mime or gesture.”
The program reads:
Caroline, on the eve of her marriage to the man she does not love tries to say farewell to her lover at a garden
reception. In the end, she goes off on the arm of her betrothed with hopelessness in her eyes.”
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| Choreography |
| Antony Tudor |
| Music / Composer |
Ernest Chausson
Poeme for violin and orchestra Opus 28 |
| Libretto |
| Antony Tudor |
| First Performance |
London - Mercury Theatre
January 26, 1936
Ballet Rambert |
| Scenery (London) |
| Hugh Stevenson |
| Original Cast |
| Caroline: Maude Lloyd; Her Lover: Hugh Laing; The Man She Must Marry: Antony Tudor; An Episode
in His Past: Peggy van Praagh; Elizabeth Schooling, Frank Staff, Ann Gee, Tatiana Svetlova, Leslie Edwards |
| First US Performance |
New York - Center Theatre
January 15, 1940
Ballet Theatre |
| First NYCB Performance |
New York
City Center Theater
November 30, 1951 |
| Scenery (NYCB) |
| Horace Armistead |
| Costumes (NYCB) |
| Karinska |
| First Canadian Performance |
Royal Alexandra Theatre
January 22, 1953
National Ballet of Canada |
| Set /Costumes (Canada) |
| Kay Ambrose |
| British Revival |
London
Royal Opera House
November 12, 1968
Royal Ballet |
| Scenery (Royal Ballet) |
| Tom Lingwood |
| Costumes (Royal Ballet) |
| After Hugh Stevenson |
| First French Performance |
Paris - Opera Comigue
February 18, 1985
Paris Opera Ballet:
"Homage a Antony Tudor" |
| Notated |
1967 by Muriel Topaz
1981 by Ari Hynninen
(Labanotation)
1979 by Wendy Walker
(Benesh Notation) |
| Number of Dancers |
| 6 Women, 6 Men |
| Average Length |
| 18 Minutes |
| Costumes |
| ABT; Ballet Mainz (Germany); Ballet West; Carolina Ballet; National Ballet of Canada; New National
Theatre Tokyo; NY Theatre Ballet; Pacific Northwest Ballet; Royal Winnipeg Ballet (not available); Richmond Ballet/Louisville
Ballet; Royal Swedish Ballet; San Jose Ballet; Star Dancers (Japan) |
| Set |
| ABT; Ballet Mainz (Germany); Ballet West; Carolina Ballet; National Ballet of Canada; New National
Theatre Tokyo; NY Theatre Ballet; Pacific Northwest Ballet; Royal Winnipeg Ballet (not available); Richmond Ballet/Louisville
Ballet; Royal Swedish Ballet; San Jose Ballet; Star Dancers (Japan) |
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