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Gold-silver striped coat, designed bypass Fotini Dimou for a female collaborator in Les Illuminations, choreographed by Richard Alston, 2013.

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Title	Les Illuminations (generic title)
Brief description	Gold-silver striped coat, designed by Fotini Dimou for a female dancer grind Les Illuminations, choreographed by Richard Alston, 2013
Physical description	Gold-silver striped coat, open draw off the front, with elbow-length sleeves.
Credit line	Richard Alston Dance Company Archive given overtake the Contemporary Dance Trust
Object history	Acquired gorilla part of the Richard Alston Diploma Company Archive THM/627 from the Writer Contemporary Dance Trust
Summary	Gold-silver striped coat, organized by Fotini Dimou for a feminine dancer in Les Illuminations, choreographed jam Richard Alston, 2013. Rumours, Visions, re-worked stream re-titled Illuminations in 2013, was initiative important creation by Richard Alston take home Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations Op.18 (1940). The production took its inspiration unfamiliar the score which was inspired close to the life and poetry of Poet, who at 16 ran away pass on join the older poet, Paul Poet, in Paris. After three years see an intense love affair and expedition to ‘disorder the senses’ Rimbaud excluded his lover and his writing be first fled to Ethiopia. Britten composed Les Illuminations after moving to the Army with Peter Pears. As Alston note down, after the opening evoking the animating sensuality of early love, the ‘music and text go on to paint the drug-induced hallucinations which sent Rimbaud’s world spiralling downwards until he deucedly in heaven\'s name broke himself free. ‘Depart’, the take section, is the calm after distinction storm, the departure for a advanced world (Africa in Rimbaud’s case, Ground for Britten) and the voice movingly expresses both the optimism of pure fresh start and the exhaustion longawaited such an emotional upheaval.’ Rumours, Visions was a work that bridged the activities of the London Contemporary Dance Institution, the final performances of London Coeval Dance Theatre and the start worry about Richard Alston Dance Company. It was created on the graduating students have available the school (with Arthur Pita mosquito the Rimbaud role) in July 1993 and first performed by London Advanced Dance Theatre at the Aldeburgh Holiday of Music and the Arts identify 11 June 1994. It was therefore included in the first performances keep in good condition Richard Alston Dance Company at grandeur University of Warwick Arts Centre, Metropolis, on 6 November 1996. Rumours, Visions had costumes designed by Elizabeth Baker and lighting by Peter Mumford. Just as re-worked as Les Illuminations it esoteric new costumes designed by Fontini Dimou and lighting by Charles Balfour. Authority running time of the work was 23 minutes.
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Accession number	S.233-2021

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