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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 a director and choreographer in opera, film and revue . Determined to be a dancer despite the opposition of his conventional middle-class family, Ashton was accepted as a pupil by Léonide ...
Sir Frederick Ashton was the principal choreographer and director of England’s Royal Ballet, the repertoire of which includes about 30 of his ballets. Ashton studied dancing in London under Léonide Massine, Nicholas Legat, and Marie Rambert, who encouraged his first choreographic efforts, The
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Biography. Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Frederick Ashton (1904–88) was one of the most influential dance figures of the 20th century. In his work with the Company he developed the distinctive ‘English style’, and left a vast corpus of works that are regularly performed by The Royal Ballet and companies around the world, among ...
It's easy to forget that Frederick Ashton, founding genius of English ballet, was originally South American. The youngest of four boys, he was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 17 September l904, and brought up in Lima, Peru where his sister was born. Ashton's father, a businessman and vice-consul, was British, and so was his mother, who introduced ...
Defining the English Style. Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–88) was one of the most influential dance figures of the 20th century. He developed the distinctive “English style” and left a vast corpus of works that are regularly performed by companies around the world, among them Marguerite and Armand, La Fille mal gardée, and Symphonic Variations.
Welcome to The Frederick Ashton Foundation, which exists to enrich the legacy of Frederick Ashton (1904 - 1988) and his ballets. Frederick Ashton is a towering figure in the development of classical ballet, one of the world's greatest and most distinctive choreographers and a principal architect of 20th century classical ballet.
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Nov 17, 2021 · A 40-minute documentary commissioned by the Frederick Ashton Foundation to mark the tenth anniversary of the Foundation’s launch in autumn 2011. Made by danc...
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