Dark Elegies

Photo by Rosalie O'Connor

Music	Gustav Mahler
Choreography	Antony Tudor
Premiere Date	Ballet Rambert, Duchess Theatre, London, England, February 19, 1937
Costumes	After Raymond Sovey
Lighting	Lisa Pinkham
ScenicDesigner	Norman Lundin
Dark Elegies is a one-act ballet performed by en ensemble of 12 dancers plus an onstage singer and is set to Gustav Mahler’s poignant Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children). The score, a song cycle for voice and orchestra featuring poems by Friedrich Rückert, is considered by many to be Mahler’s greatest work and was Tudor’s favorite.