Chronological Index
Copyright © David Vaughan
This 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 then up until 2007
Titles in italics indicate works in which Ashton choreographed sections or individual numbers (ballets by other choreographers, films, revues, etc)
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
1926
(Riverside Nights)A Tragedy of Fashion; or, The Scarlet Scissors
Pas de deux
1927
(The Fairy Queen)Pas de deux
Suite de danses (Galanteries)
Argentine Dance
1928
Nymphs and ShepherdsLeda
1929
(Jew Süss) including:• The Ballet of Mars and Venus
1930
Capriol SuiteSaudade do Brésil
Mazurka des Hussars
(Marriage à la Mode)
Pomona
(A Masque of Poetry and Music: 'Beauty, Truth and Rarity') including:
• 'Follow Your Saint': The Passionate Pavane
• Excerpts from Comus
• Dances on a Scotch Theme
A Florentine Picture
1931
La PériThe 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)
(Ballyhoo)
1933
RondoLes Masques; ou, Changement de dames
(How d'You Do?)
Pavane pour un infant défunte
(After Dark)
(Gay Hussar)
(Nursery Murmurs)
Les Rendezvous
1934
Four Saints in Three ActsMephisto Valse
Pas de deux classique
(Love Is The Best Doctor)
(Jill Darling!)
(Escape Me Never)
1935
Valentine's EveIn a Venetian Theatre
(The Flying Trapeze)
Perpetuum mobile
(Round About Regent Street)
Le Baiser de la fée
(Follow the Sun)
1936
SiestaApparitions
(The Town Talks)
(Die Fledermaus)
Nocturne
(Home and Beauty)
1937
Perpetuum mobileHarlequin in the Street
Les Patineurs
First Arabesque
Berceuse
A Wedding Bouquet
(Floodlight)
1938
HoroscopeThe Judgement of Paris
(Running Riot)
(Tannhauser)
Harlequin in the Street
1939
Pas de deuxCupid and Psyche
Devil's Holiday (Le Diable s'amuse)
1940
Dante SonataThe Wise Virgins
1941
The Wanderer1943
The Quest1945
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)1946
(The Sleeping Beauty)Symphonic Variations
Les Sirènes
The Fairy Queen
1947
ManonAlbert Herring
Valses nobles et sentimentales
1948
Scènes de ballet(La Traviata)
Don Juan
Cinderella
1949
Le Rêve de Léonor
1950
Illuminations1951
Daphnis and Chlöe(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
OrpheusHomage to the Queen
1954
Entrada de Madame Butterfly (Entry of Madam Butterfly)Trepak
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
1955
Rinaldo and ArmidaVariations on a Theme by Purcell
Madame Chrysanthème
Romeo og Julie (Romeo and Juliet)
1956
La PériBirthday Offering
The Beloved
1957
Solo Seal Variations1958
La Valse(Orfeo ed Euridice)
Ondine
1959
Scene d'amour from Raymonda1960
La Fille mal gardée(Giselle)
1961
The Two Pigeons (Les Deux Pigeons)Poème tragique
Persephone
1962
Pas de deux, Variations, and Coda from Raymonda1963
Marguerite and Armand1964
The Dream1965
Monotones1966
Monotones I and II1967
Sinfonietta1968
Jazz CalendarEnigma Variations (My Friends Pictured Within)
1970
Lament of the WavesThe Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschopfe des Prometheus)
Tales of Beatrix Potter
1971
Meditation from Thaïs(c.1830)
1972
SiestaThe Walk to the Paradise Garden
1973
(Death in Venice)(World of Harlequin)
(Tonight at 8.30)
1974
Fashion Show1975
Scène dansanteBrahms Waltz
1976
A Month in the CountryFive Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan
(The Turning Point)
1977
Hamlet PreludeTweedledum and Tweedledee
Voices of Spring (Die Fledermaus; Explosionspolka and Frühlingsstimmerwalzer)
1978
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance in the Elysian Fields)1979
Salut d'amour(Stories from a Flying Trunk)
1980
RhapsodySoupirs