Garden Party

Garden Party (1990) is a choreographic piece by François Raffinot for 9 dancers set to a music by Michael Nyman.
It is a: “comédie-ballet where action is replaced by dance, and dance by a short dialogue between 2 actors. The story, more figurative than fictional, is based on Cinderella, but a cinderella after the ball, just when she’s lost her slipper. Loss, the lost object, grief and vanity run through this piece in the form of an eternal choreographic pursuit” (taken from the piece synopsis).
Co-produced by the Festival Montpellier Danse and the Théâtre de Paris, the piece opened the 10th edition of the Montpellier festival on June 19th, 1990. It was played at Carpentras on July 19th, 1990, at the Opéra-Comique de Paris on October 17th and 18th, 1990, and at the Arsenal de Metz on October 20th, 1990. It was all set to be interpreted by the Jeune Ballet de France, on tour in Thailand between May and June 1992. But the unstable political situation obliged the teams to cancel the tour. 

Source: Inventory of the François Raffinot archives filed at the CND