A portrait of the Ballet Rambert - Britain's oldest dance company - whose birth may be said to date from June 1926 when Frederick Ashton produced his first work A Tragedy of Fashion, under the direction of Marie Rambert in the revue Riverside Nights at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

With members of the company past and present, Stephen Phillips goes behind the scenes to trace the company's remarkable story. With the voices and opinions of Tamara Karsavina, Diana Gould Menuhin, Antony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, Peggy van Pragh, Sir Frederick Ashton, Norman Morrice, Christopher Bruce, Richard Alston, Bryan Robertson, Robert North (the present director), and Dame Marie Rambert