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Brotherston started his career designing for the film <i>Letter to Brezhnev</i> (1985) and has worked extensively across dance, theatre, opera, musical theatre and film. He is best known for his collaborations with choreographer Matthew Bourne and Bourne’s dance companies Adventures in Motion Pictures and New Adventures, where he is an Associate Artist. Their ground-breaking <i>Swan Lake</i> (1995) with male swans has received over 30 international awards to date, including a Tony Award for Best Costume Design. In 1998, Brotherston received the Olivier Award’s Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Matthew Bourne’s <i>Cinderella</i>, which was set during the Blitz. In 2005, Brotherston designed, co-wrote and co-directed <i>Les Liaisons Dangereuses</i> with Adam Cooper and has designed sets and costume for many national companies including the National Theatre, Scottish Ballet, English National Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Brotherston received the Ninette de Valois Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance in 2018 and has worked extensively throughout the UK with companies Kneehigh, Shakespeare’s Globe, Sheffield Crucible, Almeida Theatre, Northern Ballet, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Old Vic, Glyndebourne and Chichester Festival Theatre. He has also designed numerous productions for the West End including <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i>, <i>The Rise and Fall of Little Voice</i>, <i>Sister Act</i> and <i>Oh What a Lovely War</i>. In 2022 Brotherston was awarded an OBE for services to Dance and Theatre. \n\nThis design was unrealised. Anthony Dowell staged <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i> for The Royal Ballet in 1994, but the production was designed by Maria Bjornson.\n","physicalDescription":"Costume design by Lez Brotherston for Carabosse in <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>. Full length female figure, looking to viewer's left. She wears a black dress with a panniered skirt, the brocade bodice with a central plain black panel and elbow-length sleeves, the ankle-length underskirt with gold details at centre, the longer plain black overskirt gathered at the waist and trimmed with a wide red band at front edges. She has a tall spiked black and gold headdress, a black and gold choker necklace and black gloves. At lower right hand corner, on an attached strip of white paper, is printed the character's name in black capital letters, with, beneath, the name, 'Anthony Dowell', in larger printed black capital letters on a similar piece of paper. To right edge, on a third strip of paper, is the ballet title, 'Sleeping Beauty', printed in the larger lettering and running up the paper from bottom to top. Behind the character is a roughly painted outline rectangle in black paint and the paper is covered in random splashes of black paint. The design is drawn on a page from an art sketchbook, with holes from the spiral binding at left. 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