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Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (September 17, 1904 - October 18, 1988) began his career as a dancer but is largely remembered as a choreographer. September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ...
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Choreography literally dance-writing, also known as dance composition), is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ...
Ashton was born at Guayaquil in Ecuador, in the artistic neighborhood called Las Peñas, the original founding site of the city.
When he was 13 he witnessed a life-changing event when he attended a performance by the legendary Anna Pavlova in the Municipal Theater in Lima,Peru. He was so impressed that from that day on he knew he would become a dancer. Anna Pavlova Anna Pavlova (portrait by Jean Thomassen) Anna Pavlova is also the name of an Olympic gymnast. ...
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In 1919 he went to England to attend Dover College and then to study under the famous Leonine Massine and established a working relationship with the ballet troupe belonging to Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. Rambert discovered Frederick's aptitude for choreography and allowed him to choreograph his first ballet, "The Tragedy of Fashion" in 1926, starting a tremendously successful career as a choreographer. Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...
Dover College is a co-educational public school in Dover, Kent, England. ...
Dame Marie Rambert was to exert a great influence on British ballet, both as dancer and teacher. ...
At age 16 Dame Ninette de Valois (June 6, 1898 – March 8, 2001) was the Irish founder of Londons renowned Royal Ballet. ...
He began his career with the Ballet Rambert which was originally called The Ballet Club. He rose to fame with The Royal Ballet, becoming its resident choreographer in the 1930s. His version of La Fille mal gardée was particularly successful. He worked with Margot Fonteyn among others. His broad travesti performances as one of the comic Ugly Stepsisters in Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella were annual events for many years. The Ballet Rambert, now Rambert Dance Company, is a dance company founded in 1926 by Dame Marie Rambert at the Mercury Theatre in London, later moving to a base in Chiswick, West London. ...
The Royal Ballet, which is based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, is the leading ballet company in the United Kingdom. ...
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La Fille mal gardée (The Badly Guarded Daughter or The Wayward Daughter or The Misbehaved Daughter) is a comic ballet in three acts, which was choreographed by Sir Frederick Aston, with music by Ferdinand Hérold. ...
Dame Margot Fonteyn, DBE, (18 May 1919-21 February 1991) was a leading British ballet dancer of her time. ...
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej SergejeviÄ Prokofev, 15/April 271, 1891 – March 5, 1953) was a Ukrainian-born Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ...
Ashton was a great friend of the Paget family and was a frequent visit to the family seat at Plas Newydd; it was here that one of the Paget daughters, Lady Rose fell hopelessly in love with him; he rebuffed her advances and at one point returned her letters - after having corrected her spelling! Despite this, they remained friends. The title of Marquess of Anglesey was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1815 for the Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, a hero of the Battle of Waterloo. ...
Lady Rose Mary Primrose McLaren (27 July 1919 – 1 November 2005) (née Paget the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey) The Paget family (the Marquesses of Anglesey), who lived at Plas Newydd and Beaudesert in Staffordshire were a close-knit family particularly noted for the beauty of its...
In 1962, he was knighted for his services to ballet. He died in 1988 at his home, Chandos Lodge, in Eye, Suffolk, England 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. ...
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Eye is a small town in the county of Suffolk, East Anglia, England, south of Diss, and on the River Dove. ...
Further reading
- Frederick Ashton: a choreographer and his ballets by Zoë Dominic and John Selwyn Gilbert. London: Harrap, 1971. ISBN 024550351X
- Frederick Ashton and his ballets by David Vaughan. London: A. and C. Black, 1977. ISBN 071361689X
- Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh. London: Faber, 1996. ISBN 0571143520
- Following Sir Fred's Steps: Ashton's Legacy edited by Stephanie Jordan and Andrée Grau. London: Dance Books, 1996. ISBN 1852730471 (also available in an online edition - see below)
- A network of Styles: Discovering the Choreographed Movement of Frederick Ashton by Geraldine Morris. University of Surrey, 2000.
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