biography
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Ashton, Sir Frederick (William Mallandaine)
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| lived:
| (1906–88)
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| biography:
| British choreographer, born in Guayaquil, W Ecuador. Following education at an English public school, he studied under Léonide Massine and Marie Rambert, who commissioned his first piece, A Tragedy of Fashion (1926). After a year in America, he returned to Britain to help found the Ballet Club, which later became Ballet Rambert (now the Rambert Dance Company). He joined the Vic–Wells Ballet in 1935 as dancer/choreographer, and remained there as the company developed into the Royal Ballet. In 1963 he succeeded Ninette de Valois as director of the company, a post he held for seven years. Famous among his many works are Façade (1931), Ondine (1958), and The Dream (1964). He was knighted in 1962. |
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