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...Ballet have become a springtime ritual. In most cases, the company's programming has become ritualistic too: 19th century warhorses like Swan Lake and Giselle, plus a generous dash of contemporary works like The Dream and The Two Pigeons by the Royal's longtime director Sir Frederick Ashton...
...company's current six-week stand at Lincoln Center, however, has a special point of interest. It is its first under the directorship of Kenneth MacMillan, 42, an Ashton disciple who is best known for his full-length Romeo and Juliet, and who succeeded his mentor in the fall of 1970. For the occasion, the company is sporting two new MacMillan pieces. Alas, together they lay two of the biggest eggs of the New York ballet season...
...from England comes another interpretation of a work for children: the movie "Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter." Instead of dissecting the stories of Beatrix Potter with words, choreographer Frederick Ashton and the Royal Ballet delve into them using the more eloquent medium of the dance. Five of Beatrix Potter's better known tales are recreated through mime and ballet, with the spirit and watercolor beauty of her books intact...
...been filmed as animated cartoons. That would have been an error. The pale palette, the twinkling brevity could never have been duplicated, even by Disney. Fortunately a British gentleman of Potterian sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green and pleasant Lake District from which...
This season, after seven years as director and 35 years with the company, Sir Frederick Ashton is retiring. The Royal Ballet bears Ashton's personal mark in many ways, particularly in its fondness for classical ballet, its elegant expressiveness and sheer English charm. The company's cheerful penchant for the stately pleasure domes of dance-the long romantic narrative ballets that delight the public, began when Ashton revived them soon after the war. Now Scottish-born Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan is replacing Ashton. He is best known for Romeo and Juliet; but he once transformed The Diary of Anne...