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The designer may be trying out different colourways for costumes, probably for the women's ball dresses in Frederick Ashton's 1936 ballet <i>Nocturne</i>. This sketch may date from the 1946 revival.\r\n\r\n<i>Nocturne</i> was a ballet in one scene to a libretto by Edward Sackville West, choreographed by Frederick Ashton to Frederick Delius’s <i>Paris</i>. It was created by the Vic Wells Ballet,and opened at Sadler’s Wells Theatre on 10 November 1936. It had a simple narrative - a rich man, accompanying a woman to a ball, flirts with a flower seller and breaks her heart in the process - but was primarily a ballet of atmosphere. The set consisted of a low balustrade, pillars and a night sky against which the colours of the costumes appeared to great effect and the trains of the dresses of the ball-goers extended the movement.\r\n\r\n<i>Nocturne</i> was revived for the stage of the Royal Opera House by Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1946. It was last seen in its entirety in 1947 as Fedorovitch and others felt it was less effective on a larger stage although, as writer Lionel Bradley pointed out, ‘the ballet will always be worth seeing, if only for the music & very beautiful costumes’.\n","physicalDescription":"Sketch of a woman in a ballgown with off-the-shoulder sleeves. The fitted bodice is black and the skirt is red, striped in black, and has a short train. The wearer has a headdress of red plumes and carries a black fan. The sketch is similar to S.580-2019 but the dancer is moving to her left. 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