Frederick Ashton

...people within their own environment. This new world fitted me artistically, and suited me socially and financially." In 1951 Frederick Ashton telegrammed to request sets and costumes for his Festival of Britain production of Daphnis...

In this article: John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso, Bedsore, Crete, Samuel Palmer, and Margot Fonteyn

...impression on the artist. Craxton painted prolifically throughout his life. He also designed a ballet, Daphnis et Chloe, for Frederick Ashton in 1951, and produced the scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's Apollo at the Royal Opera House...

In this article: John Craxton, Lucian Freud, London, Graham Sutherland, Crete, Horizon, and Patrick Leigh Fermor

...hour of this music, intended to accompany Shakespeare's play and with successful ballets set to it by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, works as a stand-alone concert piece. My guest compared the experience to eating a whole bowl of...

In this article: Bernard Haitink, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Orchestration, A Midsummer Night's Dream, First World War, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Juilliard, and George Balanchine

...just not sure that an hour of this, intended to accompany Shakespeare's play and with successful ballets set to it by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, works as a stand-alone concert piece. Andrew Patner is a local free-lance writer.

In this article: Bernard Haitink, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Anton Bruckner, Orchestration, A Midsummer Night's Dream, First World War, George Balanchine, William Shakespeare, and Igor Stravinsky

...of the 60s - dropped out at 16 to go to art college. A year later, inspired by a Royal Ballet performance (Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee), he decided that he would become a choreographer. Fortuitously, the Contemporary Dance Trust...

In this article: Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Merce Cunningham, La Fille Mal Gardee, and London Contemporary Dance School

...his partner and offering his light touch for her to be drawn in or gently released. Closing the performance was Sir Frederick Ashton's "The Dream," a rollicking, humorous take on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." First...

In this article: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon, and Agnes de Mille

...s original production and revived it to unanimous acclaim. Set designs by Oliver Messel, additional choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon as well as Tchaikovsky s immortal score have all been...

In this article: Sarah Lamb, Monica Mason, Florine, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Ninette de Valois, and Anthony Dowell

...created through her a whole family of women the sisters and the mother he had lost [through defection]. And the choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton was adamantly certain that nothing took place. I don t think he awakened in her any sexual...

In this article: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Giselle, Ninette de Valois, Erik Bruhn, and London

...those enclaves? Great choreographers divide into two schools: sufferers and travellers. The sufferers are those like Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, who transmute their pathologies, insecurities and repressed longings into art.

In this article: Christopher Wheeldon, Leanne Benjamin, Igor Stravinsky, Edward Watson, Sergei Diaghilev, Sadler's Wells, London, and Swan Lake

" Wheeldon is a reassuringly normal balletic champion. Born in Yeovil, he fell in love with ballet when he saw Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardee on TV - "It just seemed like what I was meant to do" - and won himself a place at...

In this article: Christopher Wheeldon, Royal Ballet School, Hugh Dalton, Sadler's Wells, La Fille Mal Gardee, and Wendy Whelan