1982 – Premiere of Robert North’s Pribaoutki by Ballet Rambert

Robert North’s first original work for Ballet Rambert as artistic director was Pribaoutki, which literally means ‘a telling’ in Russian. It refers to a game where verse is created through one person saying a word, and then the next person, and so on as fast as they can. Danced to music by Igor Stravinsky, and in designs by Andrew Storer, Pribaoutki was first performed at the Brighton Festival in 1982.