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Latest revision as of 13:48, 10 November 2019
Salome (1934) is a ballet choreographed by Lester Horton.
Abstract
Dancer and choreographer Lester Horton got first interested in the subject of Salome, when he directed a production of Oscar Wilde's play at the Little Theatre of the Verdugos, near Glendale, California, in 1934. The play was a success and Horton was inspired to created his first "choreodrama." The ballet was first performed in Los Angeles in 1934. In the following two years, Horton kept revising it, performance after performance.
Main cast
- Joy Montaya = Salome
- Elizabeth Talbot-Martin = Herodias
- Bruce Burroughs = Herod
- Lester Horton = John the Baptist
Production
Premiered in Los Angeles, CA: Shrine Auditorium, July 1934.
External links
Categories:
- 1934
- Fiction--1930s
- Fiction--English
- Music--1930s
- Dance--1930s
- Ballets
- English language--1930s
- Second Temple Studies--1930s
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Second Temple Studies--English
- Death of John the Baptist (subject)
- Salome--dance (subject)
- Herod Antipas--dance (subject)
- Herodias--dance (subject)
- John the Baptist--dance (subject)