Contributions

• During North’s directorship, the choreographic focus centred on North himself, Bruce and Richard Alston. Each created new works every year. Including Ghost Dances, Lonely Town, Wildlife, Sergeant Early’s Dream, Death and the Maiden
• Occasional invitations were made to overseas choreographers to mount works for the company. Amongst these were Paul Taylor’s Airs (1978, Ballet Rambert in 1982), Merce Cunningham’s Fielding Sixes (1983) and Dan Wagoner’s An Occasion for Some Revolutionary Gestures (1985).
• • Known as populist. North developed a repertoire that proved popular with audiences both at home and abroad, contributing several popular pieces himself
• Developed the physicality, musicality and dramatic quality of the dancers.
• Described his dream of broadening Rambert’s base and turning it into a forum “where artists from all disciplines will gather to exchange ideas”.
• North continued Chesworth's focus on dance education. He used episodes from Lonely Town, Lonely Street at school matinees to show ‘extended gesture’ in creating movement which communicates the range of human emotion. It was described as an: ‘excellent, entertaining introduction to dance, and the young audience’s warm reaction indicates that the proper purpose of dance in theatre – the stirring of the imagination and the excitement of the eye - has been achieved.”