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107a. Dances for Sir Oswald Stoll's Variety Shows (A NOVEL INTERPRETATION OF LIEBESTRAUM) 1931
- Music
Franz Liszt Liebestraum, ca. 1850)
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Production
Costumes by Hedley Briggs. Scenery by Frederick Stafford
- Premiere
February 16, 1931, Sir Oswald Stoll’s Variety Shows, Coliseum, London
- Cast
16 women
Performance Type
Concert Works
Note
LIEBESTRAUM appears on programs for the weeks beginning February 16, 23, and March 2, along with ‘other dances produced by George Balanchine (Director of Serge Diaghileff’s Russian Ballet).’The Coliseum was distinguished by having ‘the finest revolving stage in the world.’ In his setting of LIEBESTRAUM, Balanchine used the stage as a giant phonograph record, with a small dog in the center as ‘His Master’s Voice,’ and the women as phonograph needles.
