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These enabled the company to showcase its current repertoire. In 1982 there were programme-length ballets, including Rudolf Nureyev's staging of <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>, Mary Skeaping's <i>Giselle</i> and the premiere of John Field's <i>Swan Lake</i>, designed by Carl Toms. The season also featured mixed programmes of <i>Les Sylphides</i> (Mikhail Fokine staged by Alicia Markova), <i>The Storm</i> (Andre Prokovsky) and <i>Etudes</i> (Harald Lander), and <i>Switch Bitch</i> (Trevor Wood), <i>Sphinx</i> (Glen Tetley) and <i>Verdi Variations</i> (Andre Prokovsky).\n\nAnthony Crickmay, the photographer of this poster, began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who had a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance. Although he regularly took photographs of productions on stage, as with this image of the garland dance from the opening of Act I of <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>, he preferred to work more closely with dancers in his own studio.\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Photographic and typographic poster on a royal blue ground. It lists ballets: <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>, mixed bills of <i>Les Sylphides</i>, <i>The Storm</i> and <i>Etudes</i>, and <i>Switch Bitch</i>, <i>Sphinx</i> and <i>Verdi Variations</i>, <i>Giselle</i> and a new production of <i>Swan Lake</i>. 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