Frederick Ashton
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Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton, OM (17 de septiembre de 1904 - 18 de octubre de 1988), fue un bailarín y coreógrafo inglés nacido en Ecuador, en la vecindad artística llamada Las Peñas, el original sitio de fundación de la ciudad.
Cuando tenía 13 años fue testigo de un acontecimiento que cambió su vida cuando vio una actuación de la legendaria Anna Pavlova en el Teatro Municipal en Lima, Perú. Quedó tan impresionado por ello que a partir de ese día sabía que algún día llegaría a hacerse un bailarín.
En 1919 fue a Inglaterra a estudiar en el Dover College y entonces lo hizo con el famoso Leonide Massine y estableció una relación de trabajo con la compañía de ballet que pertenecía a Marie Rambert. También estuvo influenciado por el trabajo de Bronislava Nijinska. Rambert descubrió la aptitud de Frederick para la coreografía y permitió que coreografiara su primer ballet, “The Tragedy of Fashion” en 1926, comenzando así una carrera enormemente exitosa como coreógrafo.
Comenzó su carrera con el Ballet Rambert que originalmente fue llamado el The Ballet Club. Al mismo tiempo, comenzó a trabajar para Ninette de Valois y su compañía, el Vic-Wells Ballet, y en 1935 dejó a Rambert y se unió definitivamente a de Valois, como coreógrafo residente. A esto ayudo la gran comunión que siempre tuvo con el por entonces director artístico y musical de Ninette, Constant Lambert: los tres alcanzaron la fama tras la guerra, convirtiéndose la compañía en el Ballet Real.
Su versión de La Fille Mal Gardée fue particularmente exitosa. Trabajó con las bailarinas Margot Fonteyn y Maude Lloyd entre otros grandes artistas. Sus amplias interpretaciones travestis como una de las cómicas hermanastras en el ballet Cenicienta de Sergei Prokofiev fueron acontecimientos anuales por muchos años.
Ashton fue un gran amigo de la familia Paget y era una visita frecuente en la residencia de la familia en Plas Newydd; fue aquí donde una de las hijas de Paget, Lady Rose McLaren, se enamoró desesperadamente de él; él rechazó sus avances y en un momento le devolvió todas sus cartas después de haber corregido su ortografía. A pesar de esto, siguieron siendo amigos.
En 1962, fue nombrado caballero por sus servicios al ballet. Entre 1963 y 1970 fue director del Ballet Real, Londres. Murió en 1988 en su hogar, Chandos Lodge, en Eye, Suffolk, Inglaterra. Fue un gran amigo de Michael Baić de Framlingham en Suffolk.
[editar] Principales creaciones
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- 1926 - The Tragedy of Fashion (La tragedia de la moda, 1926).
- 1930 - Capriol Suite.
- 1931 - La Péri (Léo Delibes).
- 1931 - Façade (William Walton).
- 1933 - Les Rendez-vous (François Auber, arreglado por Constant Lambert).
- 1935 - Le Baisier de la Fée (Igor Stravinsky).
- 1937 - Les Patineurs (Giacomo Meyerbeer).
- 1946 - Symphonic Variations (César Franck).
- 1948 - Cinderella (Sergei Prokofiev).
- 1951 - Daphnis et Chloè (Maurice Ravel). Estrenado por Margot Fonteyn y Michael Somes.
- 1952 - Sylvia (Léo Delibes).
- 1958 - Ondine (Hans Werner Henze). Estrenado por Margot Fonteyn.
- 1958 - La Valse (Maurice Ravel).
- 1960 - La Fille Mal-Gardée (Ferdinand Hérold-Lanchbery.
- 1961 - The Two Pigeons (André Messager, adaptada por John Lanchbery).
- 1963 - Marguerite et Armand (Franz Liszt), para Fonteyn y Rudolf Nureyev.
- 1964 - The Dream after Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream (Felix Mendelssohn-John Lanchbery).
- 1965 - Monotones.
- 1968 - Enigma Variations (sir Edward Elgar)
- 1976 - Cinco valses de Brahms a la manera de Isadora Duncan (1975-1976), solo para Lynn Seymour
- 1976 - A Month in the Country (Frédéric Chopin-Lanchbery).
| Año | Obra | Compositor | Coreógrafía | Escenografía y diseño | Dirección |
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| 1926 | [Riverside Nights]. An Entertainment in three parts, written and arranged by A P Herbert and Nigel Playfair | Frederic Austin y Alfred Reynolds; musica adicional por Lord Berners, Dennis Arundell, Richard Leveridge, Harold Scott, and others | |||
| 1926 | A Tragedy of Fashion; or, The Scarlet Scissors. A Ballet by Ashley Dukes | Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest Irving (Kaleidoscope, for piano, opus 18) | |||
| 1927 | [The Fairy Queen]. Opera by Henry Purcell (1692), based on A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, adapted by Elkanah Settle | ||||
| 1927 | Pas de deux | Fritz Kreisler (Caprice viennois) | |||
| 1927 | Suite de danses (Galanteries) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Ballet for the pantomime Les Petits riens, 1778) | |||
| 1927 | Argentine Dance | Artello | |||
| 1928 | Nymphs and Shepherds | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Les Petits riens) | |||
| 1928 | Leda. Choreography by Frederick Ashton and Marie Rambert | Christoph Willibald Gluck (ballet music from Orfeo ed Euridice) | |||
| 1929 | [Jew Süss]. A Tragi-comedy in five scenes by Ashley Dukes, based upon passages from the Historical Romance of Lion Feuchtwanger | Incidental music arranged by Constant Lambert | Aubrey Hammond | ||
| 1929 | The Ballet of Mars and Venus. Ballet by Marie Rambert | Domenico Scarlatti, orchestrated by Constant Lambert (Sonatas) | Aubrey Hammond | ||
| 1930 | Capriol Suite | Peter Warlock, on themes from Thoinot Arbeau's Orchésographie | William Chappe | ||
| 1930 | Saudade do Brésil | Darius Milhaud (from Saudades do Brasil, for piano, 1920-1921) | William Chappe | ||
| 1930 | Mazurka des Hussars | Alexander Borodin (? from Petite suite, for piano, 1878-1885) | 'Scarlet Scissors' (Dolly Watkins) | ||
| 1930 | [Marriage à la Mode]. A Comedy, in Three Acts, by John Dryden, Poet Laureate | Alfred Reynolds | J Gower Parks | ||
| 1930 | Pomona. Ballet in one act by Thomas McGreevy | Constant Lambert (ballet, 1926) | John Banting | ||
| 1930 | 'Follow Your Saint': The Passionate Pavane | John Dowland, arranged by Constant Lambert (from Lacrymae, or Seven Teares, figured in seven | William Chappe | ||
| 1930 | [A Masque of Poetry and Music: 'Beauty, Truth and Rarity']. Produced by George Rylands. Musical director: Constant Lambert | ||||
| 1930 | Excerpts from Comus, a Masque by John Milton. The action concludes with a dance to music by Henry Purcell | ||||
| 1930 | Dances on a Scotch Theme | William Boyce, arranged by Constant Lambert (from Eight Symphonies) | William Chappe | ||
| 1930 | A Florentine Picture | Arcangelo Corelli (Violin Sonata in D minor, 'La Follia,' opus 5 no.12) | 'Scarlet Scissors' (Dolly Watkins), after Sandro Botticelli | ||
| 1931 | La Péri. The Flower of Immortality (subtitle added later) | Paul Dukas (Poème dansé, 1912) | William Chappell | ||
| 1931 | The Dance of the Hours | Amilcare Ponchielli (ballet music from La Gioconda, 1876) | |||
| 1931 | [Cabaret français]. Foxhunting Ballet | ||||
| 1931 | [Excerpts from Faust]. Opera by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré | Charles Gounod (1859-1869) | |||
| 1931 | Façade. A ballet in one act freely adapted to music originally written as a setting to poems by Edith Sitwell* | William Walton (1922) | John Armstrong | ||
| 1931 | Mercury | Erik Satie (Mercure, poses plastiques, 1924) | William Chappell | ||
| 1931 | [Dance Pretty Lady]. A British International Picture | John Reynolds; ballet music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker | |||
| 1931 | Regatta. Ballet in one act by Frederick Ashton | Gavin Gordon | William Chappell | ||
| 1931 | The Lady of Shalott. Ballet by Frederick Ashton, after the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Jean Sibelius (piano pieces from op. 75, 70, and 85) | William Chappell | ||
| 1931 | A Day in a Southern Port. Poem by Sacheverell Sitwell | Constant Lambert (The Rio Grande, 1927) | |||
| 1931 | The Lord of Burleigh | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, arranged by Edwin Evans, orchestrated by Gordon | Jacob George Sheringham | ||
| 1932 | Pompette | arranged by Hugh Bradford | Andrée Howard | ||
| 1932 | [The Cat and the Fiddle] A musical love story by Otto Harbach | Jerome Kern | Henry Dreyfuss | ||
| 1932 | [Magic Nights] Dances and ensembles arranged by Buddy Bradley and Frederick Ashton | - | William Chappell (after Jacque-Louis David) | ||
| 1932 | An 1805 Impression, under the title Récamier (sometimes called La Valse chez Madame Récamier, suite de danses) | ||||
| 1932 | High Yellow. Choreography by Buddy Bradley, with the assistance of Frederick Ashton | Spike Hughes (1 Foreword 2 Sirocco 3 Six Bells Stampede 4 Elegy 5 Weary Traveller 6 Finale, from A Harlem Symphony) | Vanessa Bell y William Chappell | ||
| 1932 | Foyer de danse (after Degas). Ballet by Frederick Ashton | Lord Berners (Luna Park; or, the Freaks, ballet, 1930) | William Chappell | ||
| 1932 | [A Kiss in Spring] A Romantic Comedy with Music by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald (an adaptation of their operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmartre, 1930) | Emmerich Kálmán and Herbert Griffiths; additional orchestrations by Constant Lambert, Arthur Wood, Alred Reynolds, and Walford Hyden | Hedley Briggs | ||
| 1932 | [Ballyhool]. A Revue, devised and staged by William Walker and Robert Nesbit. Dances and ensembles by Buddy Bradley; ballets by Frederick Ashton | William Walker | Coombe | ||
| 1933 | Rondo. Pas de deux | Jean Philippe Rameau | Phyllis Dolton | ||
| 1933 | Les Masques; ou, Changement de dames. Ballet by Frederick Ashton | Francis Poulenc (Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano, 1926) | Sophie Fedorovitch | ||
| 1933 | [How D'You Do?]. Revue with book and lyrics by Arthur Macrae, Douglas Byng, Herbert Farjeon, et al. Ballets by Frederick Ashton; mime-ballet, On the Quay, by Suzanne Stone; dances and ensembles by Tony Smythe | Ord Hamilton | Alick Johnstone | ||
| 1933 | Pavane pour un infante défunte | Maurice Ravel | Hugh Stevenson | ||
| 1933 | [After Dark] Revue by Ronald Jeans. Devised and produced by Kenneth Duffield. Ballets by Frederick Ashton; dances and ensembles by Buddy Bradley | Kenneth Duffield and Kenneth Leslie-Smith | Aubrey Hammond | ||
| 1933 | [Gay Hussar] A musical play in a prologue, two acts, and an epilogue, by Holt Marvell | George Posford | |||
| 1933 | [Nursery Murmurs] Ballets by Frederick Ashton; tap numbers by Graham Graham Cavalcoward | Noël Coward | |||
| 1933 | Les Rendezvous. Ballet-Divertissement | Daniel François Auber, arranged by Constant Lambert (ballet music from L'Enfant prodigue) | |||
| 1934 | Four Saints in Three Acts. An Opera to be Sung (Words by Gertrude Stein) | Virgil Thomson | Maurice Grosser | ||
| 1934 | Mephisto Valse. Ballet by Frederick Ashton on a theme from Lenau's Faust | Franz Liszt (Mephisto Valse nº 1, The Dance at the Inn from Lenau's Faust, 1862) | Sophie Fedorovitch | ||
| 1934 | Pas de deux classique | Alexander Glazunov (from The Seasons, ballet, opus 67) | |||
| 1934 | [Love Is The Best Doctor]. L'Amour médecin, comédie-ballet in three acts, by Jean-Baptiste Molière; translation uncredited. Directed by Robert Atkins. Dances arranged by Frederick Ashton | - | J Gower Parks | ||
| 1934 | [Jill Darling!] A New Musical Comedy by Marriott Edgar, with additional scenes and lyrics by Desmond Carter | Vivian Ellis | Leon Davey | ||
| 1934 | [Escape Me Never] A British and Dominion Picture | William Walton | Frederick Ashton | ||
| 1935 | Valentine's Eve. | Maurice Ravel (Valses nobles et sentimentales, for piano, 1911) | Frederick Ashton | Sophie Fedorovitch | |
| 1935 | In a Venetian Theatre | Vivian Ellis (originally composed for a number choreographed by George Balanchine in Charles B Cochran's 1930 Revue) | |||
| 1935 | [The Flying Trapeze] libretto by Douglas Furber from the libretto by Hans Müller (Zirkus Aimé, 1928) | Ralph Benatzky and Mabel Wayne | Ernest Stern | ||
| 1935 | Perpetuum mobile | Johann Strauss Jr (Perpetuum mobile, musikalischer scherz, opus 257) | Tilly Losch and Frederick Ashton | ||
| 1935 | [Round About Regent Street] | Orchestrations and arrangements by Billy Ternent and Jock Premice | |||
| 1935 | Le Baiser de la fée | Igor Stravinsky, inspired by the muse of Tchaikovsky (1928) | Sophie Fedorovitch | ||
| 1935 | [Follow the Sun] Revue with dialogue by Ronald Jeans and John Hastings Turner | Arthur Schwartz | |||
| 1936 | Siesta | William Walton (1928) | |||
| 1936 | Apparitions. A ballet on romantic themes arranged by Constant Lambert | Franz Liszt, arranged by Constant Lambert, orchestrated by Gordon Jacob | Cecil Beaton | ||
| 1936 | [The Town Talks] Revue by Vivian Ellis and Arthur Macrae | Vivian Ellis | |||
| 1936 | [Die Fledermaus] | Johann Strauss Jr (1874) | O F Smyth | ||
| 1936 | Nocturne. Ballet in one scene by Edward Sackville-West | Frederick Delius (Paris, Ein Nachtstück: The Song of a Great City, 1899) | Sophie Fedorovitch | ||
| 1936 | [Home and Beauty] Charles B Cochran's Coronation Revue, by A P Herbert | Nicholas Brodszky and Henry Sullivan | Raoul Pène du Bois | ||
| 1937 | Perpetuum mobile | ||||
| 1937 | Harlequin in the Street | ||||
| 1937 | Les Patineurs | ||||
| 1937 | First Arabesque | ||||
| 1937 | Berceuse | ||||
| 1937 | A Wedding Bouquet | ||||
| 1938 | Horoscope | ||||
| 1938 | The Judgment of Paris | ||||
| 1938 | [Running Riot] | ||||
| 1938 | [Tannhäuser] | ||||
| 1938 | Harlequin in the Street | ||||
| 1939 | Pas de deux | ||||
| 1939 | Cupid and Psyche | ||||
| 1939 | Devil's Holiday (Le Diable s'amuse) | ||||
| 1940 | Dante Sonata | ||||
| 1940 | The Wise Virgins | ||||
| 1941 | The Wanderer | ||||
| 1943 | The Quest | ||||
| 1945 | [A Midsummer Night's Dream] | ||||
| 1946 | [The Sleeping Beauty] | ||||
| 1946 | Symphonic Variations | ||||
| 1946 | Les Sirènes | ||||
| 1946 | The Fairy Queen | ||||
| 1947 | Manon | ||||
| 1947 | Albert Herring | ||||
| 1947 | Valses nobles et sentimentales | ||||
| 1948 | Scènes de ballet | ||||
| 1948 | [La Traviata] | ||||
| 1948 | Don Juan | ||||
| 1948 | Cinderella | ||||
| 1949 | Le Rêve de Léonor | ||||
| 1950 | Illuminations | ||||
| 1951 | Daphnis and Chloë | ||||
| 1951 | [The Tales of Hoffmann] | ||||
| 1951 | Tiresias | ||||
| 1951 | Casse Noisette | ||||
| 1952 | [The Story of Three Loves] | ||||
| 1952 | Picnic at Tintagel | ||||
| 1952 | Vision of Marguerite | ||||
| 1952 | Sylvia | ||||
| 1952 | [Le Lac des cygnes] | ||||
| 1953 | Orpheus | ||||
| 1953 | Homage to the Queen | ||||
| 1954 | Entrada de Madame Butterfly (Entry of Madame Butterfly) | ||||
| 1954 | Trepak | ||||
| 1954 | [A Midsummer Night's Dream] | ||||
| 1955 | Rinaldo and Armida | ||||
| 1955 | Variations on a Theme by Purcell | ||||
| 1955 | Madame Chrysanthème | ||||
| 1955 | Romeo og Julie (Romeo and Juliet) | ||||
| 1956 | La Péri | ||||
| 1956 | Birthday Offering | ||||
| 1956 | The Beloved | ||||
| 1957 | Solo Seal Variations | ||||
| 1958 | La Valse | ||||
| 1958 | [Orfeo ed Euridice] | ||||
| 1958 | Ondine | ||||
| 1959 | Scène d'amour from Raymonda | ||||
| 1960 | La Fille mal gardée | ||||
| 1960 | [Giselle] | ||||
| 1961 | Les deux pigeons | ||||
| 1961 | Poème tragique | ||||
| 1961 | Persephone | ||||
| 1962 | Pas de deux, Variations, and Coda from Raymonda | ||||
| 1963 | Marguerite and Armand | ||||
| 1964 | The Dream | ||||
| 1965 | Monotones | ||||
| 1966 | Monotones I and II | ||||
| 1967 | Sinfonietta | ||||
| 1968 | Jazz Calendar | ||||
| 1968 | Enigma Variations (My Friends Pictured Within) | ||||
| 1970 | Lament of the Waves | ||||
| 1970 | Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus) | ||||
| 1970 | Tales of Beatrix Potter | ||||
| 1971 | Meditation from Thaïs* [c.1830] | ||||
| 1972 | Siesta | ||||
| 1972 | The Walk to the Paradise Garden | ||||
| 1973 | [Death in Venice] | ||||
| 1973 | [World of Harlequin] | ||||
| 1973 | [Tonight at 8:30] | ||||
| 1974 | Fashion Show | ||||
| 1975 | Scène dansante | ||||
| 1975 | Brahms Waltz | ||||
| 1975 | [Floresta Amazónica] | ||||
| 1976 | A Month in the Country | ||||
| 1976 | Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan | ||||
| 1976 | Etude | ||||
| 1976 | [The Turning Point] | ||||
| 1977 | Hamlet Prelude | ||||
| 1977 | Tweedledum and Tweedledee | ||||
| 1977 | [Die Fledermaus] | ||||
| 1978 | Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance in the Elysian Fields | ||||
| 1979 | Salut d'amour | ||||
| 1979 | [Stories from a Flying Trunk] | ||||
| 1980 | Rhapsody | ||||
| 1980 | Soupirs | ||||
| 1981 | Le Rossignol | ||||
| 1983 | Varii capricci | ||||
| 1984 | Acte de présence | ||||
| 1985 | Die verwandelte Katze | ||||
| 1986 | Nursery Suite Nursery Suite |
[editar] Bibliogafia
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- 1971 - Frederick Ashton: a choreographer and his ballets por Zoë Dominic y John Selwyn Gilbert. Londres: Harrap, 1971. ISBN 024550351X.
- 1977 - Vaughan, David: Frederick Ashton and his ballets . Londres: A. and C. Black, 1977. ISBN 071361689X.
- 1996 - Kavanagh, Julie: Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton. Londres: Faber, 1996. ISBN 0571143520.
- 1996 - Following Sir Fred's Steps: Ashton's Legacy editado por Stephanie Jordan y Andrée Grau. Londres: Dance Books, 1996. ISBN 1852730471 (también disponible en una edición en línea - véase abajo).
- 2000 - Morris, Geraldine: A network of Styles: Discovering the Choreographed Movement of Frederick Ashton. Universidad de Surrey, 2000.
[editar] Enlaces externos
- Ballet.co Ashton pages
- Siguiendo los pasos de Sir Fred
- Parientes
- El ballet "Cinderella" de Frederick Ashton
- Cronología de David Vaughan de los ballets de Ashton
- Notas sobre el 'Fred Step' por Alastair Macaulay
- Dover College
- Archivo de Ashton en Danceview
- Tutu Revue essay por Clive Barnes
- Páginas de Ashton de la Compañía de Danza Rambert
- London Theatre Museum's Ashton pages
