Dance detectives at work

Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, a dance and design team based in London, reconstruct lost ballets and create new ones under their partnership name of Ballets Old & New. They have worked in theatres around the world for almost forty years.

Photo Ewa Krasuska

Rehearsing the reconstructed Rite of Spring at the Polish National Ballet in 2011, the couple in London, 2020, and checking the Rite decor at the Paris Opera atelier in 1991.

Photo Angela Cobbinah

Photo Bruno LeFevre