Word: ashton
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...Frederick Ashton gives a new twist to an old story...
...Frederick Ashton has done it again. In his new work, Varii Capricci, given its world premiere last week in New York City by London's Royal Ballet, Britain's leading choreographer, 78, has spun a fragile comic fable of misdirected lust, a brief encounter that demonstrates Ashton's continuing mastery of psychologically revealing nuance, even when the subject is a mere wisp. Set to a spunky scare by the late Sir William Walton and played out against a disarmingly evocative set by Artist David Hockney, Varii Capricci also revives one of ballet's most brilliant partnerships...
...Peter Ashton, associate professor of Botany and director of the Arnold Arboretum, and Mark Leighton, assistant professor of Anthropology, attended the conference along with Constable and scientists from various European countries, Israel and Australia...
...British ballet; of a stroke; in London. After dancing with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she worked with Nijinsky, the volatile Polish-born teacher in 1926 formed Ballet Rambert, Britain's first ballet company. There the exuberant "Mim" nurtured such choreographers and dancers as Anthony Tudor, Frederick Ashton and Agnes de Mille...
Harvard manages the gardens for Boston, and under the terms of a long term agreement the city is responsible for security there Due to the recent rash of violence in the Arboretum, however, Ashton and his colleague are now working on involving the Arboretum in a park ranger program that is due to begin in Boston soon in order to provide additional police protection...