Baylis, Nadine (1940–)

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Baylis, Nadine (1940–)

English theatrical designer. Born June 15, 1940, in London, England.

Collaborated with choreographer Glen Tetley on numerous occasions, designing for his Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain (1968), Field Figures (1970), Rag Dances (1971), among others, mostly at Ballet Rambert; worked with Norman Morrice on such ballets as That Is the Snow (1971) and Blind-Sight; designed There Was a Time (1973), Ancient Voices of Children (1975), Black Angels, and others for Christopher Bruce and Ballet Rambert; has designed for Netherlands Dance Theater, Munich Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Australian Ballet, Tanz Forum in Cologne, and others; has taught stage design at Croyden School of Design and Central School of Arts and Design in London; also designed Tetley's Ziggurat (1967), Circles, Imaginary Films and Small Parades; Graham Lustig's The Edge of Silence (1988) and Paramour (1990), both for Sadler's Wells (now Birmingham) Royal Ballet; Lustig's Peter Pan (1996), for Hong Kong Ballet; and Ben Stevenson's Alice in Wonderland (1992).

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