1987 – Premiere of Richard Alston’s Pulcinella by Ballet Rambert

Based on the commedia dell’arte narrative of the 1920 Léonide Massine / Pablo Picasso / Igor Stravinsky ballet created for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Pulcinella is a homage to the genre of ballet in which Richard Alston also expresses his own musical and Merce Cunningham-influenced contemporary style. First performed by Rambert Dance Company, the original cast included Ben Craft and Cathrine Price, and the designs were by the artist Howard Hodgkin.