By Robert Gottlieb 7/26/04 12:00am

A Rare Orgy of Ashton Lets Us Share the Love

The recent two-week Frederick Ashton celebration at the Met, in honor of his 100th birthday, has been thrilling, moving, illuminating, yet in some ways disappointing. We in America have been on a thin diet of Ashton for many years (even his own company, the Royal Ballet, has been on strict rations). Granted that dancing Ashton Read More

By Robert Gottlieb 6/24/02 12:00am

Revitalized by Ashton, A.B.T.’s Dancers Shine

For two weeks this season, ballet came back to life in New York as something you could love without hesitation or reservation. American Ballet Theatre, after floundering so long in search of plausible repertory, found it where they should have been looking all this time-in Frederick Ashton. By staging so beautifully two of his greatest Read More