Frederick Ashton retirement in 1963, in the company known successively as the Vic-Wells Ballet, the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Royal Ballet. He succeeded de Valois as director of the company, serving until his own retirement in 1970. Ashton is widely credited with the creation of a specifically English genre of ballet. Among his best-known works are "Façade" (1931), "Symphonic Variations" (1946), "Cinderella" (1948), "La fille mal gardée" (1960), "Monotones" I and II (1965), "Enigma Variations" (1968) and the feature film ballet "The Tales of Beatrix Potter" (1970). Ashton was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the fourth of the five children of George
Frederick Ashton of it together in "Salut d'amour" created by Ashton for her sixtieth birthday gala at Covent Garden. The Royal Ballet has a demonstration of the step on its website, explained by the company's ballet mistress, Ursula Hageli and danced by Romany Pajdak. Ashton left the rights to many of his ballets to friends and colleagues, including Fonteyn ("Daphnis and Chloe" and "Ondine"), Dowell ("The Dream" and "A Month in the Country"), Michael Somes ("Cinderella" and "Symphonic Variations"), Alexander Grant ("La fille mal gardée" and "Façade"), Antony Dyson ("Enigma Variations" and "Monotones"), and Brian Shaw ("Les Patineurs" and "Rendezvous"). Rights to