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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...