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Article: With Frederick Ashton's 'Dream,' PBS Offers the Moon and the Stars
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- The Washington Post
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- April 21, 2004
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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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