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  1. Interview with Frederick Ashton (1974 Audio)

    David Raher interviews Frederick Ashton in London. Ashton discusses narrative and abstract ballets, how audiences interpret dance and how he chooses themes for his ballets. He talks about Romeo and Juliet,...

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  2. Royal Ballet: Ashton Triple Bill (2019 Video)

    Director
    Ross MacGibbon

    Dance. Recording of three ballets by Frederick Ashton, conducted by Emmanuel Plasson from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The first is The Dream featuring Akanet Takada as Titania, Steven McRae and...

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  3. Dream, The (1978 Television)

    Series
    Dance Month
    Producer
    John Vernon; Colin Nears

    Television programme devoted to the work of Frederick Ashton. It is comprised of an outline of his career, an interview and two performances by The Royal Ballet. The first ballet recorded is Ashton’s...

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  4. Queen’s Silver Jubilee Gala, The (1977 Television)

    Producer
    Brian Large

    The Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet perform in the presence of members of the Royal Family in celebration of the Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee. Includes Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing Hamlet...

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  5. Dancing Shakespeare (2021 Video)

    Series
    Spotlight

    Extracts from three Shakespeare ballets performed by the National Ballet of Canada. 1. Frederick Ashton’s The Dream, adapted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to the music of Felix Mendelssohn. 2. Alexei...

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  6. Behind the Scenes with the Royal Ballet (1966 Television)

    Director
    Ion Voyantzis
    Producer
    Ion Voyantzis

    Documentary on the Royal Ballet, focusing on rehearsals for Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Frederick Ashton’s Monotones. No.2. In voiceover commentary Ashton talks about the Company, the...

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  7. Dream, The (1976 Video)

    Director
    John Hart (2)

    Dance. Excerpts from Frederick Ashton’s ballet The Dream danced by the Joffrey Ballet and directed and staged by John Hart. Music by Mendelssohn, arranged by John Lanchbery. Videotaped in studio rehearsal...

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  8. Frederick Ashton’s the Dream - American Ballet Theatre (2004 Television, Video)

    aka: Dream, The

    Director
    Matthew Diamond

    Produced to pay homage to the centenary of Frederick Ashton’s birth. The Dream was Ashton’s contribution towards Britain’s celebration of Shakespeare’s quatercentenary. He condenses the plot of A...

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  9. Joffrey Ballet (1977 Video)

    Joffrey Ballet in studio rehearsal for The Dream (11min) choreographed by Frederick Ashton and restaged by John Hart and Jazz Calendar: Saturday (12min) directed and staged by Faith Worth. The rehearsals are...

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  10. Dream, The (1967 Television)

    aka: Royal Ballet, The: The Dream

    Director
    Margaret Dale
    Producer
    Margaret Dale

    Ballet. Television adaptation of the Royal Ballet’s production of Frederick Ashton’s ballet The Dream. Plainly presented in the television studio with the principal dancers from the original 1964...

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