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Article: Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton.
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Julie Kavanagh (Faber and Faber, London, $50.00)
The career of Frederick Ashton (1904-88) bridged some of the most fruitful periods in British artistic and social history. Ashton hobnobbed with aristocracy and with the Bright Young Things and inherited the last vestiges of the Diaghilev legacy through his associations with Ninette de Valois and with Leonide Massine, one of his formidable rival choreographers in the Britain of the late thirties and early forties. Into the mix were thrown his early childhood in Ecuador and Peru (where he first saw Pavlova, who became a lifelong obsession), his work in opera and revue, his love for English literature fostered by a ...
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Frederick ASHTON. (PAR155266)
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... ... Silverstone Magnum Photos 01-01-1956 Frederick ASHTON. Keywords: inside dominant interior ... artistic profession male personality ashton frederick w famous person famous ... britain. royal ballet, london. frederick ashton. 1956 Magnum Photos
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