Shadowplay

Ballet: Work details

Choreographer: Antony Tudor
Composer: Charles Koechlin
Music title: Les Bandar-Log; La Course de printemps; Le Livre de la jungle
Work definition: Ballet in one act
Notes: According to the programme for the premiere, 'Tudor has decided - on choreographic grounds and for reasons of length - to combine one score with fragments of another. The main structure is derived from the symphonic poem 'Les Bandar-Log'. The added material...is derived from a much larger symphonic poem 'La Course de Printemps'.'
World premiere: 25 January 1967, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
ROH premiere: 25 January 1967, The Royal Ballet
ROH company premiere: 25 January 1967, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Productions
Shadowplay (1967) The Royal Ballet (31 performances online)