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...years old. But under a Noverre pupil named Antoine Bournonville and his son Auguste, the Danes learned so well that their company soon became one of the best in Europe. Last week Denmark's 200-year-old Royal Ballet, which now bows only to England's crack Sadler's Wells Company in Western Europe, was putting on a special 14-night summer festival. Danish balletomanes saw the full current repertoire of 21 ballets-most of them native productions* which are rarely seen outside of Scandinavia...
...first time in 13 years, tiny, greying Choreographer Ninette de Valois, 51, danced before an audience (as the parlormaid in A Wedding Bouquet), to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Sadler's Wells Ballet which she founded. She took more than a dozen curtain calls at the end. Later, she was presented with a silver tray by Princess Margaret...
Among British choreographers, 43-year-old Frederick Ashton has been the busiest and best, lately. U.S. audiences saw several of his witty, agreeable ballets, e.g., Cinderella, Facade, Wedding Bouquet, danced by Britain's Sadler's Wells company last fall (TIME, Nov. 14). Last week Manhattan fans got to see a new Ashton work danced by a U.S. company...
...Less Inhibited." He found the young New York City Ballet Company "less disciplined" than the crack Sadler's Wells. But the dancers were "more electric," "more rhythmic," and "less inhibited' for some of the Rimbauderies he had in mind. Says Ashton in what was obviously meant to be a compliment: "You have to pull such actions and gestures out of our dancers; yours understand immediately and express them easily...
Married. Moira Shearer, 23, red-haired ballerina of London's Sadler's Wells Ballet, star of the hit British movie The Red Shoes; and Ludovic Kennedy, 30, wartime Royal Navy lieutenant, onetime Oxford librarian; in the royal chapel of Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court, Middlesex...