The following is a list, by decade, of ballets created by the English choreographer Frederick Ashton.
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The following is a list, by decade, of ballets created by the English choreographer Frederick Ashton.
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Maryon Lane was a South African ballet dancer who became well known in Britain as a ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet and as a soloist with the Royal Ballet.
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Alexander Marshall Grant was a New Zealand ballet dancer, teacher, and company director. After moving to London as a young man, he became known as "the Royal Ballet's most remarkable actor-dancer in its golden period from the 1940s to the 1960s."
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Alfred Rodrigues was a South African ballet dancer and choreographer. His works have been produced by ballet and opera companies in many countries of the world.
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