On this day in 1956, Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Solitaire had its first performance. The ballet has had at least three redesigns in its long history, but when Birmingham Royal Ballet came to revive the ballet in 2016 the Company returned to Desmond Heeley's original costumes. 60 years after the premiere, most costumes needed to be completely re-made. We talked at the time to Anna Willetts and Lorna Burke in the Costume team about their work re-creating the originals. | Birmingham Royal Ballet
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"When the dancers and I began to work on a revival in 1956, we found we could remember very little of the original. So many new ballets had intervened that I had to start work all over again! That was not altogether a misfortune, for this score is one I adore most in the world," wrote George Balanchine in his Complete Stories of The Great Ballets. Did you know his Divertimento No. 15 was a reworking of Caracole, which premiered in 1952? After several years of its absence, Balanchine decided to s
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