Images from the ballet were obtained from the archive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and covered Royal Ballet productions in the period 1946–2004; final material for the Rose Adagio included images obtained from 11 video-recordings plus 14 photographs.

1N” indicates the number of available images derived from each source.
2Year or season.
3Positions analysed: D: développé à la seconde; A: arabesque sur la pointe; AS: piqué arabesque sur la pointe; AP: arabesque penchée; R arabesque roses; the numeral indicates the number of images that were examined for each position.