Sir Frederick Ashton. Genius. Cigarette smoker.

22 January 2010

Sir Frederick Ashton. Genius. Cigarette smoker.

Category: Dance | Tags: ashton's cinderella, cinderella, frederick ashton, margot fonteyn, nureyev

Joffrey Ballet Artistic Director Ashley Wheater reminisces about choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton. [...]

13 January 2010

Moira Shearer in Ashton’s Cinderella

Category: Dance | Tags: frederick ashton, joffrey ballet, margot fonteyn, moira shearer

Frederick Ashton choreographed his ballet classic “Cinderella” in part on Moira Shearer in 1948. [...]

12 October 2009

Red hair, red shoes

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: anton walbrook, frederick ashton, hollywood history, leonide massine, martin scorsese, moira shearer, the red shoes

The Red Shoes’ huge blast of technicolor transforms red-headed Moira Shearer into an unspeakably firey, unearthly creature … her neat figure, fair complexion, and carrot top adding to her uber-deliciousness as a dance-besotted ballerina-heroine. [...]