• Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM CH CBE (17 September 1904 – 18 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as...
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  • Frankenstein Sir Frederick Ashton was the founder choreographer of the Royal Ballet. Previously a dancer with the Ballet Rambert, Ashton started his career...
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  • Potter. The film was directed by Reginald Mills, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton (who danced the role of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle), and featured dancers from...
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    Guardian. Jennings, Luke (24 January 2016). "Rhapsody review – heart-stopping Ashton from Francesca Hayward". The Guardian. Jennings, Luke (24 April 2016). "The...
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  • talent and extraordinary abilities could not be ignored. In 1964, Frederick Ashton, chief choreographer of the company, chose him to create the role of...
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    From 1936 to 1937, she had an affair with English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988), despite the fact that he was gay. After the affair ended...
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  • audiences are perhaps most familiar with the production staged by Frederick Ashton for the Royal Ballet in 1960. The appealing simplicity and the naïve...
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    choreographed by Frederick Ashton, popularized the work. Productions in 1997, 2004, 2005, and 2009 productions were all based on Ashton's choreography. The...
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  • Scottish Ballet. She played the Young Girl in the company's revival of Frederick Ashton's 1961 romance The Two Pigeons. It opened at the Edinburgh Festival...
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    Marguerite and Armand with choreography by Frederick Ashton Main part in "Rhapsody" with choreography by Frederick Ashton Knave of Hearts. Alice's Adventures...
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    semitone lower than the original composition. The British choreographer Frederick Ashton created a balletic pas de deux from the Méditation. Premiered on 21...
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    ballerina of the company in 1935. The Vic-Wells choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, wrote numerous parts for Fonteyn and her partner, Robert Helpmann...
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  • Rhapsody is a one-act ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton to Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The ballet was made for both Queen Elizabeth...
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    leading men, partnering Alicia Markova and later Margot Fonteyn. When Frederick Ashton, the company's chief choreographer, was called up for military service...
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  • a list, by decade, of ballets created by the English choreographer Frederick Ashton. A Tragedy of Fashion (music by Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest...
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    choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, music by Felix Mendelssohn Lolly Willowes 1934 Rio Grande choreography by Frederick Ashton, music by Constant Lambert...
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    Bacon met in 1988 at a party hosted by the British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton. In 2014, it was reported by The Sunday Times that in taped conversations...
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  • painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy...
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    other club members at the time was the emerging choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, who would play a significant role in her career on the ballet stage...
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    Sonata 17 Frederick Ashton Franz Liszt arr Constant Lambert Daphnis et Chloé 55 Frederick Ashton Maurice Ravel The Dream 54 Frederick Ashton Felix Mendelssohn...
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  • Russian-born theatrical designer who worked with ballet choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton from his first choreographed ballet in 1926 until her accidental death...
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  • Hill Gate. Other members of the club included emerging choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, and Andrée Howard, each of whom would respond to Lloyd's...
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  • in three acts created by the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and composer Hans Werner Henze. Ashton originally produced Ondine for the Royal Ballet...
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  • as works created by contemporary dancemakers. She was a favorite of Frederick Ashton, chief choreographer of the company, who cast her in new works, such...
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    she was president. He danced Poème Tragique, a solo choreographed by Frederick Ashton, and the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake. They were so well received...
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    Balanchine, and Sir Frederick Ashton were all influential choreographers of classical or abstract dance, but Balanchine and Ashton, along with Martha Graham...
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  • Prokofiev's Cinderella music and re-choreographed by Frederick Ashton, is a comic ballet. Ashton's Cinderella is his own realised dream of a Petipa ballet...
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    In 1976 Frederick Ashton created a short ballet entitled Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan on Lynn Seymour, in which "Ashton fused Duncan's...
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  • Dominic Antonucci is a ballet master and ex-principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB). He was raised in Akron, Ohio, having been born in...
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    Ballet. She also set about establishing a British repertory, engaging Frederick Ashton as Principal Choreographer and Constant Lambert as Musical Director...
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