Ashton – filmed records by the BBC

THIS WEEK: A REAL CHOREOGRAPHER Documentary

CINDERELLA (25.12.70) The Royal , choreography by , with Antoinette Sibley, , Frederick Ashton, , and

CINDERELLA (23.12.79) in choreography by Frederick Ashton with , Anthony Dowell, Derek Rencher, Brian Shaw and Monica Mason

CONTRASTS: THE ROYAL BALLET: (21.8.68) Choreography by Frederick Ashton performed by The Royal Ballet

DANCE MASTERCLASS: (9.4.88) Frederick Ashton with Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Karen Paisey and Philip Broomhead

DANCE MONTH: The Dream/ A Month in the Country (7.5.78) Choreography by Frederick Ashton with , Anthony Dowell and

DANCE MONTH: TRIPLE BILL (28.5.78) The Royal Ballet in Enigma Variations (Ashton), Edward Villella and Patricia McBride in Tarantella (Balanchine ) and Rashna Homji and Ashley Page in Leda and the Swan (Seymour)

DEMONSTRATION FILM (1937) includes extracts of Façade and Passionate Pavane, choreography by Frederick Ashton, and a specially created solo for

DIE FLEDERMAUS (31.12.83) Includes Voices of Spring (end of Act II) choreography by Frederick Ashton, danced by Merle Park and

GALA PERFORMANCE (4.3.66) includes and Christopher Gable in the Broom dance (Act 1) and the Ballroom pas de deux from Frederick Ashton's Cinderella

GALA PERFORMANCE (22.4.66) includes extracts from performed by Margot Fonteyn and Attilio Labis

GALA PERFORMANCE (20.4.73) includes The Walk to the Paradise Garden, choreography by Frederick Ashton, danced by Merle Park, and Derek Rencher GALA PERFORMANCE (12.4.74) includes pas de deux from Acts I and II of The Two Pigeons, choreography by Frederick Ashton, danced by Doreen Wells and David Wall

IN PERFORMANCE: AN EVENING WITH THE ROYAL BALLET (28.10.78) Elite Syncopations (MacMillan); Four Schumann Pieces (van Manen); Act II pas de deux from La Fille mal gardée (Ashton); Bluebird pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa); Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Ashton); Monotones II (Ashton); Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan (Ashton); Balcony pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan)

THE QUEEN'S SILVER JUBILEE GALA (30.5.77) Part 2: The Royal Ballet in Symphonic Variations (Ashton), Pavane (MacMillan), Gloriana Choral Dances (MacMillan), Hamlet Preludes (Ashton) and (Ashton)

REVIEW: ASHTON IN CAMERA (10.3.72) Includes the Meditation from Thais, choreography by Frederick Ashton, danced by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell

THE ROYAL BALLET: La Fille mal gardée (27.12.62) Choreography by Frederick Ashton, with Nadia Nerina, , Stanley Holden, Leslie Edwards, Alexander Grant, Franklin White and Laurence Ruffell

THE ROYAL BALLET: La Fille mal gardée (4.5.81) The Royal Ballet in choreography by Frederick Ashton with Lesley Collier, Michael Coleman. Garry Grant, Brian Shaw

THE ROYAL BALLET: Enigma Variations (15.12.75) Choreography by Frederick Ashton, with Derek Rencher, , Anthony Dowell, Ann Jenner and

ROYAL BIRTHDAY AT THE BALLET (4.8.80) Mam'zelle Angot, choreography by Léonide Massine , with Rosalyn Whitten, Michael Coleman, Stephen Jefferies and Jennifer Penney and the pas de deux from Rhapsody, choreography by Frederick Ashton, with and Lesley Collier [Note: there are three versions available, none of which is the programme as finally edited for broadcast but all interesting in footage and atmosphere of a Royal occasion.]

SADLER'S WELLS ROYAL BALLET: DOUBLE BILL (26.12.79) , choreography by Frederick Ashton with Kim Reeder, Lois Strike, Marion Tait, Vyvyan Lorrayne and Carl Meyers; Pineapple Poll, choreography by with Desmond Kelly, Marion Tait and David Morse [Note: cassette VB 43509 is the programme as broadcast with the two . VB29131 and VB38606 is just the performance of Pineapple Poll. There was a later transmission of this alone.]