Appointed as the company’s new artistic director, Peter Schaufuss widened London Festival Ballet’s repertoire, inviting Frederick Ashton to mount his Romeo and Juliet on the company in 1985, and Natalia Makarova to produce her version of the ‘Kingdom of the Shades’ scene from La Bayadère. Christopher Bruce also became associate choreographer to the company.
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