Created for
Richard Alston Dance Company
 
Music
Benjamin Britten - A Ceremony of Carols
 
Lighting
Charles Balfour
 
Costumes
Richard Alston

 

Duration

22 minutes

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Originally danced by a cast of

5 women 5 men (extended to a cast of 16)

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Video Excerpt

Filmed and edited by Steve Jackman at Sadler's Wells. 

Produced by The Place.

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Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols has a wonderful directness. The music has for me quite deep roots of feeling because we sang Britten in the choir at my school Eton. Boys' voices can have a lot of power, that incredible purity you get. 

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The video is of the racing urgent Deo Gracias. Students from The London Contemporary Dance School augmented the full Company which was exciting to deal with.

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First performed 8 February 2012 at The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.