In November 1980, Anthony Dowell helped Anya Sainsbury (Linden) to organise a ballet gala in aid of the Friends of One Parent Families. He took part in seven of the seventeen items on the programme. For the occasion Kenneth MacMillan choreographed a pas de deux in which Dowell partnered Jennifer Penney, set to Paul McCartney’s Waterfalls.
First performance: London Palladium, 30 November 1980
Occasion: Anthony Dowell Gala
Cast: Anthony Dowell
Music: Paul McCartney, Waterfalls