Nadine Baylis
# Nadine Baylis

Nadine Paula Ann Baylis (15 June 1940 – 3 November 2017) was a British stage and costume designer, who "set the standard for modern dance costume".

## Early life

Nadine Baylis was born in London, the daughter of Alice (nee Down) and Sydney Baylis, who ran a car hire business, and then a pub in Shepherd's Bush, west London. She went to Lady Margaret School, in Parsons Green. Baylis was educated at London's Central School of Art and Design.

## Career

Early in her career, Baylis worked with Ralph Koltai. Baylis was closely associated with Ballet Rambert, and first worked with them in 1965, and the ballets of Glen Tetley.

## Later life

Baylis died on 3 November 2017, and lived at Scotsgrove, Thame, Buckinghamshire.

## Selected productions (as designer)

* Ziggurat (Ballet Rambert, 1967)
* Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain (Ballet Rambert, 1968)
* Field Figures (Royal Ballet, 1970)
* Sacre du printemps (Munich State Opera, 1974)
* The Tempest (Ballet Rambert, 1979)
* Alice (National Ballet of Canada, 1986)
* Orpheus (Australian Ballet, 1987)
* Oracle (National Ballet of Canada, 1994)
* Michael Corder's Romeo and Juliet (1992) for the Norwegian National Ballet
* London Contemporary Dance Theatre's The Phantasmagoria in 1987
* Ben Stevenson's Alice in Wonderland (1992) for Houston Ballet
