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	Frederick Ashton, 'Following Sir Fred's Steps', Edited by Stephanie Jordan & Andrée Grau
		This was a unique event which brought together a variety of rich perspectives on Frederick Ashton and his ballets, combining the first-hand accounts of his closest collaborators with analytic discussion of his choreography, technique and style.
		Ashton’s ballets are an important part of the story of theatre dance in the twentieth century.
		The conference brought together a broad range of differing perspectives on Frederick Ashton and his work: historical documentation, critical analyses of choreography, studies of technique and style, as well as fascinating reminiscences and anecdotes by dancers, teachers and choreographers.
	www.ballet.co.uk /followingsirfred (680 words)

	Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton
		Now Ashton's family wasn't so supportive of his love of dance, plus he lived in South America at a time when there wasn't too much ballet in South America, so Frederick Ashton didn't start actually dancing until he was sent to England to complete his education in 1924.
		Ashton's use of movement in the body and epaulment are blended with very intricate footwork make an interesting contrast with the very controlled arms and low arabesques and all together it creates the Ashton style.
		Ashton choreographed over one hundred ballets of which over thirty are still in the repertoire of the Royal Ballet alone, it is this work upon which the Royal Ballet was built.
	www.the-ballet.com /ashton.php?PHPSESSID=67373159110b62660be542c8aec01f31 (820 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frederick Ashton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frederick was born on 17 September 1904 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
		According to Frederick, "she injected me with her poison and from the end of that evening I wanted to dance." Unfortunately, his father was adamant in his refusal to allow his son to take ballet lessons.
		Frederick Ashton was the principal choreographer of the Royal Ballet from 1933 to 1970.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederick-Ashton (1142 words)

	Frederick Ashton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (September 17, 1904 - October 18, 1988) began his career as a dancer but is largely remembered as a choreographer.
		Ashton was born at Guayaquil in Ecuador, in the artistic neighborhood called Las Peñas, the original founding site of the city.
		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!
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_Ashton (412 words)

	Frederick Ashton - Cinderella - Mary Cargill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ashton and Helpmann are impossible acts to follow, I guess, and their ability to both underplay the movement (Helpmann could bring the house down just by a single limp) and still steal every scene they were in has left a difficult legacy.
		Ashton, in his frilly, lace encrusted costume, which was actually quite pretty, was everyone’s dithering old maid aunt, fussy, eager, and though irritating, certainly sympathetic.
		Ashton’s original idea was a slightly cynical, sardonic comment on the proceedings, the jester as the confidant who never got the girl.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2004/summer/Ashton/reviews/ac11.htm (991 words)

	New York Choreographic Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ashton’s ambition was to be a great dancer; a vain hope, given his slender physique and late start.
		Ashton spent a year in Paris as a dancer in Ida Rubinstein’s company where, under Bronislava Nijinska’s direction, he taught himself a lot about choreography by observing closely the way she worked.
		Ashton’s contribution to British ballet was recognized with a CBE in 1950, knighthood in 1962, appointment as a Companion of Honour in 1970 and the Order of Merit in 1977.
	www.nycballet.com /nyci/nyci_forums_percival.html (1259 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Ashton, Sir Frederick
		Ashton's hilarious performance as the older Ugly Sister, with Robert Helpmann in a high-camp turn as the younger Ugly Sister, has become legendary, and these are now coveted roles.
		Ashton was a member of the circle of gay men who surrounded Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, whom he taught to tango.
		Regarding his sex life, Ashton remarked, "I was always the loser." However, his true love was ballet, and his happy, life-long affair with dance produced masterpieces that remain among the most popular ballets in the world.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/ashton_f.html (1148 words)

	Frederick Ashton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ashton was born in Ecuador, in the artistic neighborhood called Las Peñas, the original founding site of the city.
		Ashton was a great friend of the Paget family and was a frequent visit to the family seat at Plas Newydd; it here thatone 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!
		Frederick Ashton, External Links, 1904 births, 1988 deaths, Ballet choreographers, British ballet dancers, Danseurs, Gay and lesbian or bisexual people.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Frederick_Ashton (354 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Collections
		Frederick Ashton was probably the greatest British choreographer of the 20th century, whose works helped establish the supremacy of The Royal Ballet.
		Ashton’s ballets were the foundation of The Royal Ballet repertory and style.
		Ashton’s achievements were officially recognised when he became Sir Frederick (or Sir Fred as most of his colleagues called him) in 1962, followed by the even more prestigious awards of the Companion of Honour and the Order of Merit.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/default.php?ter_id=311 (194 words)

	Sir Frederick Ashton biography - Ballet.co - Home page
		Although we think of Frederick Ashton as the most English of choreographers, he was actually born in Ecuador, on September 17th 1904, and then spent his early years in Peru, where his father was a diplomat.
		Ashton came to England when he was 15, as a boarder at Dover College, and left school after three unhappy years only to move into a dreary job which he hated.
		Ashton left Rambert for a year to dance with Bronislava Nijinska, another of the the major influences on his work, and when he returned he began choreographing regularly for Rambert, making works for her Ballet Club, to be performed on the handkerchief-sized stage of the Mercury Theatre.
	www.danze.co.uk /ashton/ashton_biography.htm (433 words)

	tutu revue - issue #1 - Sir Fred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ashton, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1904, the same year as Balanchine, was, in a sense, a late developer.
		Ashton had the old Shaker gift so admired by his friend Martha Graham, "the gift to be simple." Movement flowed from him, like magic thread from a spool.
		A prime example is Ashton's 1948 mounting of "Cinderella" — the first full-evening British ballet, and, the first version of the Prokofiev score outside of Russia — in which the fairytale love story is fleshed out with feelings so compellingly romantic that even today, half a century later, it remains the finest of all versions.
	www.mirella-dance.com /tutu/issue_1.html (1554 words)

	Clark Ashton Smith - The Eldritch Dark
		Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961), perhaps best known today for his association with H.P Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, is in his own right a unique master of fantasy, horror and science-fiction.
		While he considered himself primarily a poet, and wrote over 700 poems and prose poems, it is for his short stories that he is best known today.
		Clark Ashton Smith was also a self-taught artist whose paintings, drawings and sculptures reflect the phantasmagoric worlds of his fiction.
	www.eldritchdark.com (358 words)

	Frederick Ashton - Cinderella - Susan Reiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Part of the stepsisters' importance within the ballet is the way their earthy "low" shenanigans (competing, exhibiting their jealousy and anger) contrast with the purity and luminousness of the elevated stratum inhabited by Cinderella and her assembled fantastical minions.
		These two weeks of Ashton have reinforced how eloquently the feet can "speak" in Ashton's ballets, and how true Ashton dancers must have feet that are not only shapely and beautifully stretched but that carry out the expressiveness of the choreography and are always responsive to the musical impetus.
		Leanne Benjamin, the matinee Cinderella, does have feet that draw the eye and fulfill Ashton's demanding requirements with grace and suppleness; this was evident from her tremulous, liquid performance in the "Thais" Pas de Deux on opening night.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2004/summer/Ashton/reviews/ac10.htm (854 words)

	Sir Frederick Ashton - ABT
		Frederick Ashton was born in 1904 and spent his childhood in South America.
		Ashton remained De Valois’ associate until 1948 when his position as Associate Director was publicly recognized.
		Frederick Ashton was made a CBE in 1950, and knighted in 1962.
	www.abt.org /education/archive/choreographers/ashton_s.html (621 words)

	BRITISH CLASSIC / THE STORYTELLER WHO LOVED PURE DANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For more than 50 years, Ashton's ballets were central to the repertory of the company now known as the Royal Ballet, and, if you watched it during his lifetime, you often saw him take curtain calls afterward, always with emotion, and always happy to receive the love showered upon him by the audience.
		Ashton made his dancers tip out into space with their upper bodies; generations of dancers have testified that his two favorite words in rehearsal were "bend" and "more."
		Under Ashton's tutelage, British ballet was at its most lustrous in slow, controlled, adagio movement, especially when two or more dancers are moving together without supporting one another; and it is "Monotones" that takes this kind of dancing to a poetic extreme that has never been surpassed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/11/PKGG75V18H1.DTL (1015 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Genius of infinite wit and wonder
		Ashton himself said the one he'd save in a flood was Scènes de ballet.
		Ashton was raised in Peru and spoke Spanish fluently; one wonders if some thread still tugs.
		That Ashton was a creator of infinite variety is partly owed to his impatience, but also to the backing he got from Marie Rambert, Ninette de Valois, Constant Lambert and his associates in the establishment who believed in exploiting ballet's capacity to conjure the fabulous into ordinary lives.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/11/btashton11.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/06/11/ixartright.html (775 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Ballet's Ashton celebrated in style
		Sir Frederick's creative spark for choreography was nurtured by Marie Rambert when he joined the company at the age of 21.
		By the time of his death in 1988, Sir Frederick had brought a new level of artistry to the lyrical style of classical dancing in ballets such as La Fille mal Gardee, Cinderella and Ondine.
		"Ashton was already there in my blood but the process on working on this piece has made me look at his work with new eyes and I have learned a lot about him," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3722379.stm (820 words)

	Ashton, Sir Frederick. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Traveling to London in the early 1920s, he studied dance with Léonide Massine and Marie Rambert, staged his first work there in 1926, and danced (1928) with Ida Rubinstein’s experimental troupe in Paris.
		Ashton joined the Vic-Wells Ballet, later the Sadler’s Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet), in 1935 as chief choreographer, and later became associate director and then director of the company.
		Ashton is largely responsible for the elegantly reserved style of English classical dance, and his mature works are noted for their lyricism, quiet charm, wit, and precision.
	www.bartleby.com /65/as/Ashton-S.html (260 words)

	Abandoned Ashton / The great choreographer's repertoire is suffering neglect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The all-Ashton menu for the week came from the heart; 30 years ago Dowell was one of the great dancers for whom Ashton was meat-and-potatoes repertoire.
		He has promised minimal Ashton for his first season and, although the Birmingham Royal Ballet under David Bintley reportedly has offered some impressive revivals, one of the influential figures in classical ballet is fast becoming a stranger to audiences, even in the United Kingdom.
		Ashton always believed in entertaining his audiences; he was indebted to the English music hall as much as Balanchine was influenced by Broadway and Hollywood musical comedies.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/24/PK200350.DTL (1152 words)

	Baby Name Ashton - Origin and Meaning of Ashton
		Choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton; museum executive Ashton Hawkins; actor Ashton Kutcher.
		Ashton has 6 variant forms: Ash, Ashford, Ashtin, Ashtun, Assheton and Aston.
		Ashton is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census).
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Ashton (149 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		The two giants of twentieth-century ballet, Frederick Ashton and George Balanchine, were both born in 1904.
		When it was made, in 1968, Ashton was the director of the Royal Ballet, but shortly beforehand he had been informed that in 1970 he would be replaced.
		But I think the mileage that Ashton got from the academic vocabulary is most obvious in the narrative ballets, where the classroom steps, which have no fixed dramatic meaning, would seem irrelevant, even subversive, to the dramatic purpose, and aren’t.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/040802crda_dancing (1735 words)

	Ashton, Sir Frederick on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ASHTON, SIR FREDERICK [Ashton, Sir Frederick] 1904-88, British choreographer and dancer, b.
		The allure of Ashton: the Royal Ballet brings the work of its founding choreographer back to the U.S. this month.
		Fitting tribute to a great lord of the dance; Birmingham Royal Ballet, moving home to Birmingham Rep during the closure of the Hippodrome, launches a festival of Frederick Ashton ballets tonight.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Ashton-S1.asp (556 words)

	Frederick Mallandaine Ashton
		Frederick's life changed in 1917 when he saw Anna Pavlova in Peru on her South American tour.
		In 1921, Frederick finally began to realize his ambition to be a dancer when he began taking lessons with Leonide Massine and later with Marie Rambert.
		Although he loved to dance, Frederick's greatest ability lie in his work as a choreographer.
	members.shaw.ca /mallandaine/h24.html (315 words)

	JS Online: Ballet's Pink makes things work
		His connections to Ashton and Nureyev flowed from coming of age as a dancer in London in the 1970s.
		Ashton met Pink when the latter was a contestant and the former a judge in a student choreography competition in 1972.
		Both Nureyev and Ashton represent a preference for theatrical narrative ballets, in contrast to the more abstract approach of George Balanchine, which dominates in America.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/nov02/97926.asp?format=print (1235 words)

	Frederick Ashton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ashton became a dancer for Rambert between 1926 and 1937, but encouraged by Marie Rambert he created his first ballet for the company, A Tragedy of Fashion, in 1926.
		From 1935 Ashton became associated principally with de Valois’ Vic-Wells Ballet (later to become The Royal Ballet and most of his subsequent ballets were created for this company.
		Ashton’s only creation for Ballet Rambert after his performing days with the company was Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan.
	www.rambert.org.uk /about/people/detail_a.asp?art=1217 (218 words)

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