A Life Dedicated to Visual Storytelling: Yolanda Sonnabend Yolanda Sonnabend (1935-2015) was a British artist whose career spanned the worlds of theatre, ballet, and portraiture. Though perhaps best known for her evocative stage designs – particularly those created in collaboration with the celebrated choreographer Kenneth MacMillan – to define her solely as a designer would be to overlook the breadth of her talent and the depth of her artistic vision. Born in 1935, Sonnabend possessed an innate ability to translate emotion into visual form, whether crafting fantastical landscapes for Swan L…