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SIR RICHARD ALSTON

CHOREOGRAPHER

CHOREOCHRONICLE

Richard Alston has choreographed hundreds of pieces in a career spanning over 50 years. The full list of his work is accessible below.

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Please download the printable Choreochronicle PDF below for further details including the music and dance company for each piece:

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Some of Richard's works are available on DVD:

Order Alston in Overdrive online at Dance Books.

Order All American Alston online at Dance Books.

Order Gypsy Mixture and Nigredo online at Dance Books.

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♦♦ Teacher's guides and resources available.

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1965     1970     1975     1980     1985     1990     1995     2000     2005     2010     2015     2020

2015 - 2019

  • Shine On (2019)

  • Voices and Light Footsteps (2019)

  • Mid Century Modern (2018)

  • Brahms Hungarian (2018)

  • Carnaval (2017)

  • Chacony (2017)

  • An Italian in Madrid (2016)

  • Nomadic (2015)

  • Mazur (2015)

2010 - 2014

  • Rejoice in the Lamb (2014)

  • Darknesse Visible (2013)

  • Phaedra (2013)

  • Holderlin Fragments (2013)

  • Buzzing Round the Hunisuccle (2013)

  • All Alight (2012)

  • Isthmus (2012)

  • Evensong (2012)

  • A Ceremony of Carols (2012)

  • Unfinished Business (2011)

  • A Rugged Flourish (2011)

  • Out of the Strong (2010)

2005 - 2009

  • Carmen (2009)

  • Serene Beneath (2009)

  • Alert (2009)

  • Blow Over (2008)

  • Shuffle It Right (2008)

  • The Men in My Life (2008)

  • Fingerprint (2007)

  • Nigerdo (2007)

  • Proverb (2006)

  • The Devil in the Detail (2006)

  • Such Longing (2005)

  • Volumina (2005)

2000 - 2004

1995 - 1999

  • A Sudden Exit (1999)

  • Slow Airs Almost All (1999)

  • Red Run (1998)

  • Waltzes in Disorder (1998)

  • Brisk Singing (1997)

  • Light Flooding Into Darkened Rooms (1997)

  • Beyond Measure (1996)

  • Okho (1996)

  • Orpheus Singing and Dreaming (1996)

  • Secret Theatre (1996)

  • Stardust (1995)

1990 - 1994

  • Movements from Petrushka (1994)

  • Lachrymae (1994)

  • Prelude and Fugue (1994)

  • Rumours Visions (revived in 2013 as Illuminations) (1994)

  • Sad Eyes (1994)

  • Shadow Realm (1994)

  • Delicious Arbour (1993)

  • Le Marteau sans Maître (1992)

  • Cat's Eye (1992)

  • Dealing with Shadows (1990)

  • Roughcut (1990)

1985 - 1989

  • Cinema (1989)

  • Pulau Dewata (1989)

  • Hymnos (1988)

  • Rhapsody in Blue (1988)

  • Pulcinella (1987)

  • Strong Language (1987) ♦♦

  • Zanza (1986)

  • Cutter (1985)

  • Dangerous Liaisons (1985)

  • Mythologies (1985)

1980 - 1984

  • Coursing (1984)

  • Wildlife (1984) ♦♦

  • Midsummer (1983)

  • The Brilliant and The Dark (1983)

  • Chicago Brass (1983)

  • Facing Out (1982)

  • Java (1983)

  • Apollo Distraught (1982)

  • Fantasie (1982)

  • Crown Diamonds (1982)

  • Danse fra Pagodernes Rige (1982)

  • Dutiful Ducks (1982)

  • Berceuse (1981)

  • Night Music (1981)

  • The Rite of Spring: Pictures of Pagan Russia (1981)

  • Soda Lake (1981)

  • Sugar (1981)

  • Swedish Dances (1981)

  • Bell High (1980)

  • Landscape (1980)

  • Rainbow Ripples (1980)

  • Schubert Dances (1980)

  • The Field of Mustard (1980)

1975 - 1979

  • Behind the Piano (1979)

  • Dumka (1979)

  • Elegiac Blue (1979)

  • Breaking Ground (1978)

  • Distant Rebound (1978)

  • Doublework (1978)

  • The Seven Deadly Sins (1978)

  • Unknown Banker Buys Atlantic (1978)

  • Home Ground (1978)

  • Blueprint (1977)

  • Connecting Passages (1977)

  • Rainbow Bandit (1977)

  • Edge (1976)

  • Solo Soft Verges (1976)

  • UnAmerican Activities (1976)

  • Compass (1975)

  • Slight Adventure (1975)

  • Standard Steps (1975)

  • Souvenir (1975)

  • Two Saints in Three Acts (1975)

  • Zero Through Nine (1975)

1970 - 1974

  • Blue Schubert Fragments (1974)

  • Rainbow Bandit (1974)

  • Soft Verges/ Hard Shoulder (1974)

  • Split (1974)

  • Slow Field (1974)

  • Headlong (1973)

  • Interior (1973)

  • The Average Leap Forward (1973)

  • Combines (1972)

  • Balkan Sobranie (1972)

  • Routine Couple (1972)

  • Thunder (1972)

  • Tiger Balm (1972)

  • Windhover (1972)

  • After Follows Before (1971)

  • Cold (1971)

  • End (1971)

  • Shiftwork (1971)

  • Who is Twyla Tharp? (1971)

  • Departing in Yellow (1970)

  • Goldrush (1970)

  • Nowhere Slowly (1970)

  • Pace (1970)

  • Winter Music (1970)

1965 -1969

  • Cycladic Figure (1969)

  • Something to Do (1969)

  • Still Moving Still (1969)

  • Matrix (1968)

  • Transit (1968)

1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
1985
1980
1975
1970
1965
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