 There he added Solor in "La Bayadère" and Basilio in "Don Quixote" to his roster of leading roles.Along with experiencing the challenges of a new repertory, he partnered such bright stars as Natalia Makarova in "Swan Lake" and Gelsey Kirkland in "Romeo and Juliet".After his official retirement from the Royal Ballet in 1984, he continued to make occasional dance appearances well into his fifties, creating roles in MacMillan's "Winter Dreams" in 1991 and in Peter Wright's production of "The Nutcracker" in 1999.