... Caravan season INTERNATIONAL Ballet Caravan, Alexander Roy's Lon don Ballet Theatre, returns to London for a short season at the Commonwealth Institute from April 25 to 27. Four new ballets will be presented, Quintet, a first ballet by Prue Sheridan to music by Jean Francaix, Visages d'une Femme, by Alexander Roy to an electronic score by Jacob Druckan and featuring Chris tina Gallea, ...

... BALLET PROMS PROM enthusiasm occasionally seems to have little to do with the quality of the music being played, but the large number of floor-squatters in the seatless stalls area at Covent Garden at last week's two Ballet Proms certainly had something worthy of their cheers. On April 2 they had a powerful reading by Colin Davis of the Rite of Spring score, dominating the action on stage ...

... Delights of 'Mignon' IT IS perhaps understandable why Thomas's opera Mignon no longer holds a place on our stage, with its plot about a girl stolen by gipsies and eventually reunited with her father after a series of far-fetched coincidences. But it does contain much attractive music, quite apart from the familiar numbers like Je suis Titania and Connais-tu le Pays?, and the Court ...

... Irish premieres THE IRISH Ballet Company's second programme will be premiered at the Abbey, Dublin on May 28, when the works to be presented are Timeless Echoes, by Domy Reiter- Soffer, Peter Darrell's Bieder- meier dances and Grand Pas Gitane; Loveraker, also by Domy Reiter-Soffer, to music by Isang Yun; and West Cork Ballad, by Joan Denise Moriarty. All except the last are first ...

... Rameau THE MONTEVERDI Choir Society on March 29 presented a concert performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall of Rameau's Les FStes d'H£b£, in which there are three stories, one for each act, as we would say, or entrie as Rameau's librettist described the division. The music is lively and each number is less predictable in shape than the formality of da capo aria we have grown accustomed to in ...

... COLISEUM-ROYAL DANISH BALLET THE ROYAL Danish Ballet is one of the few really great dance companies, with a perfection of style and technique running through the entire ensemble from the corps de ballet to the principals. Their visit last week to the Coliseum was only their third to London and six days is too short a time for a company of such quality, par ticularly as they played ...