 Her first solo role was as one of the Blue Skaters in Frederick Ashton's "Les Patineurs".Her first lead role was as the Serving Maid in "The Gods Go A-Begging" "with a charm and style remarkable for a child of fourteen and a half".On her fifteenth birthday, Dame Ninette de Valois gave her an inscribed copy of Gordon Anthony's book on Dame Margot Fonteyn and the opportunity of dancing Odette-Odile in the full-length "Le Lac des Cygnes".