Primrose path: Artists of the Royal Ballet in 'Les Rendezvous', Frederick Ashton's first significant ballet, made in 1933 The company as a whole has rarely looked better in any Ashton ballet, bending ...

Many remarkable performances fueled the Royal’s mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company’s founding choreographer. By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London Dance, people like to say, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sarasota Ballet, which has built a growing international reputation on the strength of its performances of works by Sir ...

During his 15 years at the helm of The Sarasota Ballet, Iain Webb has made British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, a household name. There was not a single Ashton ballet in the company’s ...

Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1978) was originally choreographed for Anthony Dowell to music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, and for this performance, Royal Ballet First Soloist Joseph Sissens joined ...

A farewell to Armand: Zenaida Yanowsky and Roberto Bolle as the titular characters in Frederick Ashton's 'Marguerite and Armand'. It was in this piece three years ago that I first saw Marianela Nuñez ...

If you were one of the fortunate people attending one of the evening performances of The Sarasota Ballet's sold-out, A Tribute to Ashton, (Sir Frederick Ashton), Scènes de ballet and The Two Pigeons, ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

In the lengthy process of celebrating the Balanchine centennial, the most famed of the British choreographers, Frederick Ashton, whose centennial also occurred this year, was almost overlooked. Well, ...

In American Ballet Theater’s production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet. By Brian Seibert Hunting bows in hand, a new generation of dancers takes on the ...

Among the world’s great classical-dance companies, Leningrad’s Kirov preserves with museum-like fidelity the ballet traditions of Imperial Russia. The New York City Ballet dazzles the eye with its ...