[1] Joining the company in 1970,[1] he danced a wide range of roles across the Royal Ballet repertoire at Covent Garden from 1971 to 1986.
[2] These included leads in Kenneth MacMillan's 1979 La Fin du jour and his 1980 Gloria for the Royal Ballet.
[1] He also danced in the premieres of Manon, Four Schumann Pieces, and Consort Lessons, and the first performances by the Royal Ballet of Liebeslieder Walzer, My Brother, My Sisters and Return to the Strange Land.
In 1983, Hosking danced a lead role in Glen Tetley's Dances of Albion: Dark Night Glad Day, and Anna Kisselgoff writing in the New York Times called him "the hero of the evening".
[3] Hosking took time away from the Royal Ballet from 1975 to 1977 to study Egyptology and art in Italy[1] with the artist, André Durand.