Yolanda Paulina Tamara Sonnabend (26 March 1935 – 9 November 2015) was a British theatre and ballet designer and painter, primarily of portraits.

From 1955 to 1960 she studied painting and stage design at the Slade School of Fine Art.

[4] She designed her first ballet, "A Blue Rose" by Peter Wright, in 1957 when she was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art.

[5] She first collaborated with Kenneth MacMillan in 1963 on Symphony and worked with him for over thirty years, including Rituals (1975), Requiem (1976), My Brother, My Sisters (1978) and Valley of Shadows (1983).

[6] Swan Lake (1987) and La Bayadère (1980) are some of her key achievements with the Royal Ballet.