Article: With Frederick Ashton's 'Dream,' PBS Offers the Moon and the Stars

There are few choreographers who do moonlight as well as Frederick Ashton did, and few ballerinas who dance in it as beautifully as Alessandra Ferri. How marvelous it is that Ashton, Ferri and moonbeams are united in the hour-long ballet "The Dream," a gorgeously poetic abbreviation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which airs tonight on PBS (Channel 22 at 8 and Channel 26 at 11).

The ballet world has been busily celebrating the centennial of George Balanchine this year, but Britain's Ashton, who would have turned 100 this fall, is getting much less attention. This production of his "Dream," an ingenious distillation of midnight confusion and knotted and untangled love, must ...

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