#frederick ashton

[enchanted-keys]

Akane Takada as Titania in The Dream (Royal Ballet 2017)

[dozydawn]

Alina Cojocaru and Frederico Bonelli

Delia Mathews and Iain Mackay

Zenaida Yanowsky and Rupert Pennefather

Marianela Nunez and Matthew Ball

Lauren Cuthbertson and Vadim Muntagirov

Genesia Rosato and Bruce Sansom

[margotfonteyns]

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Marguerite and Armand, 1963

[catullus101]

Sarah Wildor and Iain Webb in Frederick Ashton’s The Dream

Royal Opera House, 1994. Ph. Alastair Muir

[leslie057]

Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in CINDERELLA (Royal Ballet 2023)

[spectredelarose]

Darcey Bussell in A Month in the Country, Royal Ballet, 2005

[cinemagal]

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

[tikitania]

ABT Fall Season!

I'm doing a thing! I'm headed to NYC with my daughter to catch two performances of ABT's Fall Season. I'm am so very excited because they are dancing one of my favorite ballets, Etudes. I'm overjoyed to see this on a grand stage instead of on YouTube. Program 1: Classics Old & New Piano Concerto No. 1 (ch: Ratmansky, m: Shostakovich) Petit Mort (ch: Jiri Kylian, m: Mozart) Etudes (ch: Harald Lander, m: Czerny) Program 2: 20th Century Works Ballet Imperial (ch: Balanchine, m: Tchaikovsky) The Dream (ch: Ashton, m: Mendelsohn) I just love these two programs. If I had time and money, would have stayed for the 3rd program of 21st Century works…le sigh. A new discovery for me is Jiri Kylian's Petit Mort. I've only recently looked up videos. It is stunning. Absolutely gorgeous. I think this is NDT (Netherlands Dance Theater) based on the comments, but not sure.

Here's a link to Etudes, too! I absolutely LOVE this piece.

[balletroyale]

Ashton Celebrated casting is finally announced

[lovelyballetandmore]

The Royal Ballet | A fabulous photo from a 1946 performance of Les Sirènes with Robert Helpmann, Margot Fonteyn, and Frederick Ashton.

[screenshothaven]

Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody/The Two Pigeons (2016)

[enchanted-keys]

Fumi Kaneko as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Royal Ballet 2023)

[dozydawn]

Margot Fonteyn in Scenes de Ballet, 1948.

[margotfonteyns]

Homage to the Queen, Royal Ballet, 1953 & 2006 (with Margot Fonteyn and Darcey Bussell as Queen of the Air)

[catullus101]

Sir Anthony Dowell performs Beliaev's first solo from A Month in the Country. London, Royal Opera House, 1980

"It fascinates me that, as Dowell originally danced the role, Beliaev’s first real dance step was (a) quadruple pirouette corkscrewing from attitude back via passé and back into attitude back (b) winding that raised foot through développé into piquée arabesque penchée - this subtly unorthodox penchée as seen here, with the single line of the arms and shoulders not continuing the line of the raised leg and torso so much and bisecting it. It perfectly sums up Beliaev’s unconscious grace and alien presence. When the ballet was young, we never realised it was a hard step. Dowell himself has said recently 'That step’s like the wind - you can’t always catch it". Alastair Macaulay

[gramilano]

Athelhampton House Gala: Stars of The Royal Ballet dance in charity gala this weekend

10 and 11 September sees the return of the Athelhampton House Gala in Dorset, UK, with Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers.

Akane Takada and Ryoichi Hirano in Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour The Athelhampton House Gala in Dorset has become an annual happening after the Royal Ballet’s Meaghan Grace Hinkis created the event after the first lockdown in 2020. Hinkis, who has been a first soloist since 2021, wanted to support her industry with the gala in response to the closures of performing arts venues.…