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See also: List of ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton and Category:Ballets by Frederick Ashton
"Cinderella" ballet — features Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann as the two Ugly Stepsisters (DVD cover)
"Cinderella" ballet — features
Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann
as the two Ugly Stepsisters (DVD cover)

Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton CBE, OM, CH (September 17, 1904 - October 18, 1988) was a leading international dancer and choreographer. The following is a list currently incomplete of Ballets created by the English Choreographer Frederick Ashton. Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE (9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986 was an Australian dancer actor director and Choreographer. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order. Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) is an Art form that generally refers to movement of the body usually rhythmic See also, Choreography (literally "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" (circular dance see chorea) and "γραφή" He is most noted as the founder choreographer of the Royal Ballet in London, but also worked as a director and choreographer of opera, film and theatre revues. The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned Classical ballet company based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical Entertainment that combines Music, dance and sketches. He was admitted into the French Legion d’Honneur in 1962, was made a Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1963, received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronatation Award from the Royal Academy of Dance in 1959 and the Gold Medal from the Carina Aria Foundation in Sweden in 1972. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Order of the Dannebrog (Dannebrogordenen is an Order of Denmark, instituted in Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD is a leading International dance Examination board specialising in Classical Ballet. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.


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Early life

Ashton was born at Guayaquil in Ecuador, in the artistic neighbourhood called Las Peñas, the original founding site of the city. Guayaquil (waʝaˈkil officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous City in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Ecuador topics.

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. Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (А́нна Па́вловна Па́влова (&ndash 23 January, 1931) was a famous Russian Ballerina of the late Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers on a coast overlooking Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. He was so impressed that from that day on he was determined that he would become a dancer.

Career

In 1919 he went to England to attend Dover College and then to study under the famous Leonide Massine and established a working relationship with the ballet troupe belonging to Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Dover College is a Co-educational public school in Dover, Kent, England. See also Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (Russian Леонид Фёдорович Мясин better known in the French transliteration Léonide Massine ( August Dame Marie Rambert ( 20 February 1888 &ndash 12 June 1982) was a Polish-Jewish dancer and dance pedagogue who exerted a great influence See also Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE ( June 6, 1898 &ndash March 8, 2001) was the His aim was to become a great dancer, but his late introduction to dancing and slight physique made this a highly difficult ambition to fulfil. However, Rambert discovered Ashton'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.

He began his career with the Ballet Rambert which was originally called The Ballet Club. The Rambert Dance Company, is a leading British contemporary Dance company. He rose to fame with The Royal Ballet, becoming its resident choreographer in the 1930s. The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned Classical ballet company based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. Work from this decade that has stayed in repertory includes Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous, and A Wedding Bouquet. World War Two inspired Ashton to create some works along more sombre lines, including Dante Sonata (recently reconstructed after having been thought lost), and after the war he turned to plotless ballet, with such works as Symphonic Variations and Scènes de ballet. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Scènes de ballet is a one-act Ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton, who created the ballet during 1947-48 1948 brought his first major three-act ballet for a British company, Cinderella, which was followed by Sylvia (1952), and Ondine (1958), with choreography created especially to display Margot Fonteyn's unique talents and music by Hans Werner Henze. Sylvia, originally Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, is a full-length Ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed Ondine is a three act ballet created in 1958 by legendary British Choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton for the Royal Ballet Hans Werner Henze (born July 1 1926 Gütersloh, Germany is a German composer well known for his left-wing political convictions While Ondine was a vehicle for Fonteyn, Marguerite and Armand displayed the excellence of Fonteyn's partnership with Rudolf Nureyev. Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev ( Tatar: Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev, Russian: Рудольф Хаметович Нуриев His version of La Fille mal gardée was particularly successful, and His broad travesti performances as one of the comic Ugly Stepsisters in Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella were annual events for many years. La Fille mal gardée is a comic Ballet presented in two acts inspired by 1789 painting Le Reprimande/Une Jeune Fille Querellée par sa Mère. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) ( - 5 March 1953 was a Russian composer who

Ashton was Director of the Royal Ballet from 1963 to 1970. He brought new works by Antony Tudor to the company, as well as guaranteeing the survival of several of Nijinska's ballets by having her mount Les Noces and Les Biches. Antony Tudor ( 4 April 1908 - 19 April 1987) born William Cook, highly influential twentieth-century English Ballet See also Bronislava Nijinska (Бронислава Фоминична Нижинская Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya; Polish: Bronisława Niżyńska Two important revivals of George Balanchine's works also marked Ashton's time as Director. See also List of ballets by George Balanchine, George Balanchine (January 22 1904 &ndash April 30 1983 born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze

He also enjoyed a productive career away from ballet as a choreographer for films, revues, and musicals. His work in opera included, in 1953, directing Kathleen Ferrier in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice at Covent Garden. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE ( 22 April 1912 &ndash 8 October 1953) was an English Contralto Orfeo ed Euridice (French version Orphée et Eurydice; English translation Orpheus and Eurydice) is an Opera composed by Christoph Willibald

Personal

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. Marquess of Anglesey is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Plâs Newydd or Plas Newydd, located in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, is the country seat of the Marquess of The Lady Rose Mary Primrose McLaren ( 27 July 1919 &ndash 1 November 2005) was a British aristocrat the fourth daughter of the Despite this, they remained friends.

In 1962, he was knighted for his services to ballet. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ballet is a formalized form of Dance with its origins in the French court further developed in France and Russia as a Concert dance He died in 1988 at his home, Chandos Lodge, in Eye, Suffolk, England. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Eye is a small Market town in the County of Suffolk, East Anglia, England, south of Diss, and on the River Dove He was a great friend of Michael Baić of Framlingham in Suffolk.

Ashton's nephew, Anthony Russell-Roberts, is the Administrative Director of the Royal Ballet. Anthony de Villeneuve Russell-Roberts, CBE, MA (Oxon, is the Administrative Director of the Royal Ballet and the Executor and The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned Classical ballet company based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England

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