Ashton – filmed records by the BBC THIS WEEK: A REAL CHOREOGRAPHER Documentary CINDERELLA (25.12.70) The Royal Ballet, choreography by Frederick Ashton, with Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann, Georgina Parkinson and Alexander Grant CINDERELLA (23.12.79) The Royal Ballet in choreography by Frederick Ashton with Lesley Collier, Anthony Dowell, Derek Rencher, Brian Shaw and Monica Mason CONTRASTS: THE ROYAL BALLET: MONOTONES (21.8.68) Choreography by Frederick Ashton performed by The Royal Ballet DANCE MASTERCLASS: The Dream (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 Merle Park, Anthony Dowell and Lynn Seymour 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 Margot Fonteyn DIE FLEDERMAUS (31.12.83) Includes Voices of Spring (end of Act II) choreography by Frederick Ashton, danced by Merle Park and Wayne Eagling GALA PERFORMANCE (4.3.66) includes Nadia Nerina 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 Ondine 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, David Wall 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 La Valse (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, David Blair, 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, Svetlana Beriosova, Anthony Dowell, Ann Jenner and Wayne Sleep 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 Mikhail Baryshnikov 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) Les Patineurs, choreography by Frederick Ashton with Kim Reeder, Lois Strike, Marion Tait, Vyvyan Lorrayne and Carl Meyers; Pineapple Poll, choreography by John Cranko with Desmond Kelly, Marion Tait and David Morse [Note: cassette VB 43509 is the programme as broadcast with the two ballets. VB29131 and VB38606 is just the performance of Pineapple Poll. There was a later transmission of this alone.] .