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Lørdag 26. maj 2012

Frederick Ashton

  • Alina Cojocaru og Johan Kobborg charmerede med stjernepiruetter mellem sommerbrise og brosten på Nørre Vosborg
  • Doktor Dans har skrevet erindringsbog om Nureyev og Erik Bruhn, der både er selvironisk og smuk. Men den giver klump i halsen
  • Ninette de Valois, 102 år *En af Storbritanniens og den vestlige verdens største ballet-skikkelser i det 20. århundrede, Ninette de Valois, er død 102 år gammel. Ninette de Valois indskrev sig i ballethistorien som grundlægger af den nationale britiske ballet – Royal Ballet – der regnes blandt de bedste internationale kompagnier...
  • Erik Aschengreens balletbog er en præstation på højde med anstrengelserne hos den bedste svaneprins NY BOG Der går dans har Erik Aschengreen kaldt sin gigantiske bog om Den Kongelige Ballet 1948-98...
  • Både personer og historie var ved at drukne i Diesel-tøj i Peter Schaufuss' nye 'Romeo og Julie' FESTUGE Så kom forsidebilledet fra Århus Festuge endelig til live, da Peter Schaufuss Balletten havde premiere på sin moderne version af Romeo og Julie...

The New York Times

Artikler om Frederick Ashton fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 18. oktober 2011
  • DANCE REVIEW; In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina

    LONDON -- Frederick Ashton was listening to the radio one evening in April 1962 when he heard Liszt's ''Piano Sonata in B minor.'' ''Almost immediately,'' he later said, ''I could hear the whole thing in it.'' That thing was his ballet ''Marguerite and Armand,'' created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in 1963, and based on the 1852 Alexandre...

  • BALLET REVIEW; This Ballet Season in Britain, a Cinderella Complex

    LONDON -- Some sort of collective unconscious artistic will determined that ''Cinderella'' would be the ''Nutcracker'' of this year's Christmas dance season in Britain. There are no fewer than four productions dotted about the country, two of them in London: the Royal Ballet's grand 1948 production by Frederick Ashton, and Matthew Bourne's vividly...

  • DANCE REVIEW; For a Night, British Rule At the Ballet

    It's amazing how much the whole climate of the Metropolitan Opera House improves once American Ballet Theater stops presenting its 19th-century classics. In the penultimate week of its season at the house, the company is shuffling seven one-act ballets and four pas de deux into different arrangements, and on Tuesday that meant ''All-Classic...