After training the first set of pupils at the new school, de Valois produced a number of early performances by the state ballet company, permitting guest appearances by Royal Ballet dancers including Margot Fonteyn, Nadia Nerina, Anya Linden, Michael Somes and David Blair. She mounted productions of the traditional classical repertoire including "Coppélia", "Giselle", "Don Quixote", "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker", as well as the contemporary ballets "Les Patineurs", "Les Rendezvous" and "Prince of the Pagodas" by Frederick Ashton, and her own ballets "The Rake's Progress", "Checkmate" and "Orpheus".