1955 – London Festival Ballet dances Harald Lander’s Etudes for the first time

Etudes is a ballet of mounting excitement as choreographer Harald Lander takes the audience and the dancers through the progress of classical dance technique culminating in a spectacular finale of dance pyrotechnics. Danced to music by Carl Czerny, arranged by Knugåge Riisager, the ballet was given its first performance by the Royal Danish Ballet in 1948. Etudes was added to the repertory of London Festival Ballet at the Royal Festival Hall in 1955, when it was led by Toni Lander, John Gilpin, Nikolai Polajenko and Anton Dolin.