The Royal Ballet’s celebration of Frederick Ashton is a luscious treat. It shows different sides of the company’s founder choreographer, from the chic of Scènes de ballet to the romantic drama of A ...

Perhaps the central character of this mythical ballet is the score itself — an 1876 masterpiece by Léo Delibes that ...

He was known as the "founding father of British ballet", inspired to dance after seeing Anna Pavlova perform in 1917. Choreographer Frederick Ashton was to become one of the most influential dance ...

Victoria Hulland and Ricardo Rhodes have danced together many times during their 14 years with The Sarasota Ballet, but it has been a while because of programming and the coronavirus pandemic. So they ...

The Dance Historian Is In, a monthly series at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, will present a discussion of the early careers of dance legends Frederick Ashton, Agnes De Mille, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixteen 2nd Year students presented choreographic works at The Royal Ballet School’s Frederick Ashton Emerging Choreographer performance in May. The event concluded the School’s annual Choreographic ...

There are few choreographers who do moonlight as well as Frederick Ashton did, and few ballerinas who dance in it as beautifully as Alessandra Ferri. How marvelous it is that Ashton, Ferri and ...

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has announced a new collaboration with The Frederick Ashton Foundation. This year, as part of the prestigious Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition (The ...