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Following Sir Fred's Steps - Ashton’s Legacy. Edited by Stephanie Jordan & Andrée Grau. First Published by Dance Books in 1996. ISBN 1 85273 047 1

The original book cover (above) shows Frederick Ashton rehearsing Nadia Nerina and David Blair in La Fille mal gardée. Photograph © by Zoë Dominic.

The contents page from Following Sir Fred's Steps - Ashton's Legacy, the published proceedings of the conference on the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and his work, held at Roehampton University in 1994, and edited by Stephanie Jordan and Andrée Grau.

Following Sir Fred’s Steps

Contents


Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction


Ashton Now

David Vaughan

The Influence of Cecchetti on Ashton's Work

Richard Glasstone

The Bourrée: a Myriad of Uses

Geraldine Morris

The Expanded Moment

James Neufeld

Character and Classicism in Ashton's Dances

John Percival

Approaches to the Revival of Les Masques

Shelley Berg
and Jill Beck

A Month in the Country

Stephanie Jordan

My Dearest Friend, My Greatest Collaborator

Beth Genné

Mime in Ashton's Ballets

Giannandrea Poesio

Romeo and Juliet

Katherine S. Healy

Following the Fred Step

Adrian Grater

Two Letters

Jane Pritchard

Gender, Sexuality, Community

Alastair Macaulay

Interview with Alexander Grant

Julie Kavanagh

The Ballerina's Solos from Scènes de ballet

Antoinette Sibley

Pas de Deux from the Dream

Antoinette Sibley
and Anthony Dowell

The Solo Seal Variations

Pamela May

The Royal Ballet Ashton Programme

Panel Discussion

Ashton Dancers Across the Generations

Panel Discussion

Choreographers and Teachers

Panel Discussion

'Stars' from Cinderella

Rosalind Eyre

Solo from Birthday Offering

Monica Mason

Excerpts from Enigma Variations

Peter Wright


Appendix I Scores of Ashton Ballets in Benesh Movement Notation

 

Appendix II Notes on Contributors



 

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