Titles
of works by Ashton are given in bold; titles of works in which he choreographed
sections or individual numbers (ballets by other choreographers, films,
revues, etc) are enclosed in square brackets.
Abbreviations:
M Music by
S Scenery by
C Costumes by
D Danced by
FP First performance
NP New production
R Reproduced by
ST Staging (indicates that the ballet was produced in substantially its
original form)
1926
[Riverside
Nights]
A
Tragedy of Fashion; or, The Scarlet Scissors
1927
[The
Fairy Queen]
Pas
de deux
Suite
de danses (Galanteries)
Argentine
Dance
1928
Nymphs
and Shepherds
Leda
1929
[Jew
Süss]
1930
Capriol
Suite
Saudade
do Brésil
Mazurka
des Hussars
[Marriage
à la Mode]
Pomona
'Follow
Your Saint': The Passionate Pavane
Excerpts
from Comus, a Masque by John Milton
Dances
on a Scotch Theme
A
Florentine Picture
1931
La Péri
The
Dance of the Hours
[Cabaret
français]
[Excerpts
from Faust]
Façade
Mercury
[Dance
Pretty Lady]
Regatta
The
Lady of Shalott
A
Day in a Southern Port
The
Lord of Burleigh
1932
Pompette
[The
Cat and the Fiddle]
[Magic
Nights]
High
Yellow
Foyer
de danse
[A
Kiss in Spring]
[Ballyhool]
1933
Rondo
Les
Masques; ou, Changement de dames
[How
D'You Do?]
Pavane
pour un infante défunte
[After
Dark
[Gay
Hussar]
[Nursery
Murmurs]
Les
Rendezvous
1934
Four
Saints in Three Acts
Mephisto
Valse
Pas
de deux classique
[Love
Is The Best Doctor]
[Jill
Darling!]
[Escape
Me Never]
1935
Valentine's
Eve
In
a Venetian Theatre
[The
Flying Trapeze]
Perpetuum
mobile
[Round About Regent Street]
Le Baiser de la fée
[Follow the Sun]
1936
Siesta
Apparitions
[The
Town Talks]
[Die
Fledermaus]
Nocturne
[Home
and Beauty]
1937
Perpetuum
mobile
Harlequin
in the Street
Les
Patineurs
First
Arabesque
Berceuse
A
Wedding Bouquet
1938
Horoscope
The
Judgment of Paris
[Running
Riot]
[Tannhäuser]
Harlequin
in the Street
1939
Pas de
deux
Cupid
and Psyche
Devil's
Holiday (Le Diable s'amuse)
1940
Dante
Sonata
The
Wise Virgins
1941
The Wanderer
1943
The Quest
1945
[A Midsummer
Night's Dream]
1946
[The
Sleeping Beauty]
Symphonic
Variations
Les
Sirènes
The
Fairy Queen
1947
Manon
Albert
Herring
Valses
nobles et sentimentales
1948
Scènes
de ballet
[La
Traviata]
Don
Juan
Cinderella
1949
Le Rêve
de Léonor
1950
Illuminations
1951
Daphnis
and Chloë
[The
Tales of Hoffmann]
Tiresias
Casse
Noisette
1952
[The
Story of Three Loves]
Picnic at Tintagel
Vision of Marguerite
Sylvia
[Le
Lac des cygnes]
1953
Orpheus
Homage
to the Queen
1954
Entrada
de Madame Butterfly (Entry of Madame Butterfly)
Trepak
[A
Midsummer Night's Dream]
1955
Rinaldo
and Armida
Variations
on a Theme by Purcell
Madame
Chrysanthème
Romeo
og Julie (Romeo and Juliet)
1956
La Péri
Birthday
Offering
The
Beloved
1957
Solo Seal Variations
1958
La Valse
[Orfeo
ed Euridice]
Ondine
1959
Scène
d'amour from Raymonda
1960
La Fille
mal gardée
[Giselle]
1961
Les deux
pigeons
Poème
tragique
Persephone
1962
Pas de deux,
Variations, and Coda from Raymonda
1963
Marguerite
and Armand
1964
The Dream
1965
Monotones
1966
Monotones
I and II
1967
Sinfonietta
1968
Jazz
Calendar
Enigma
Variations (My Friends Pictured Within)
1970
Lament
of the Waves
Die
Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus)
Tales
of Beatrix Potter
1971
Meditation
from Thaïs*
[c.1830]
1972
Siesta
The
Walk to the Paradise Garden
1973
[Death
in Venice]
[World
of Harlequin]
[Tonight
at 8:30]
1974
Fashion
Show
1975
Scène
dansante
Brahms
Waltz
[Floresta
Amazónica]
1976
A Month
in the Country
Five
Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan
Etude
[The Turning Point]
1977
Hamlet
Prelude
Tweedledum
and Tweedledee
[Die
Fledermaus]
1978
Orpheus
and Eurydice: Dance in the Elysian Fields
1979
Salut
d'amour
[Stories
from a Flying Trunk]
1980
Rhapsody
Soupirs
1981
Le Rossignol
1983
Varii
capricci
1984
Acte
de présence
1985
Die
verwandelte Katze
1986
Nursery
Suite
The chronology
was originally published in David Vaughan's "Frederick Ashton and
His Ballets" Alfred E. Knopf, 1976; 2nd ed., London: Dance Books,
1999, and includes new productions added since that date.
Photo on
home page: Frederick Ashton rehearsing Mona Vangsaae and Henning Kronstam
in "Romeo og Julie," Copenhagen, 1956. Photo by Mydstkov, from
"Henning Kronstam, Portrait of a Danish Dancer" by Alexandra
Tomalonis, University Press of Florida, 2002.
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