The Sleeping Beauty has been performed at many key moments in the Royal Ballet"s history. To coincide with the Company"s 75th Anniversary, Monica Mason and Christopher Newton created a new production based on the Sergeyev/De Valois/Messel production that was first performed by the company in 1946. Peter Farmer recreated and augmented Oliver Messel"s designs adn Christopher Wheeldon choreographed a new Garland Dance for this production.