In 2016, The Dicky Buckle Fund and Covent Garden Dance commissioned a large and ambitious new work titled Les Copines, based on a libretto written by the late Terence Brady.

This beautiful ballet was choreographed by Tim Podesta and premiered at Hatch House in July 2016, receiving the huge ovation it deserved.

Terence’s libretto was based on a Norman Parkinson image called ‘Young Velvets’ and was performed by Mara Galeazzi, Gregory Dean, Ksenia Ovsyanick, Silvia Selvini and Jia Zhang.

With thanks to The Noman Parkinson Estate for their kind and generous support of this project.