Not long now until DANSOX welcomes The Frederick Ashton Foundation Frederick Ashton Fdn for a celebration of Ashton's work! 📅24th April, JdP Music Building, all welcome! 🎟️Tickets are free! Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-w…

Magic and misadventure abound ✨ The Dream – Frederick Ashton’s reimagining of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream – premiered on this day in 1964. 🎫 See The Dream on our Main stage from 7 June – book your tickets today: bit.ly/4aVBIiL

💡Did you know?... Frederick Ashton made his debut as a dancer 99 years ago today – on Good Friday, 10 April 1925 – performing a fandango with the Duenna Dancers on the Palace Pier in Brighton

🎀 for those who haven't yet bought tix, our 2nd exciting Frederick Ashton Fdn event this April is a masterclass with Birmingham Royal Ballet on 'La Fille mal gardée', with dancers from the company coached by Carlos Acosta CBE & Sandra Madgwick 🗓️ 30 Apr, 7.30pm, ElmhurstBalletSchool 🔗 tinyurl.com/28yglold

It's all about #Ashton 🩰 Join us Royal Ballet School or via zoom on 29 May for a joint event with The Frederick Ashton Foundation Frederick Ashton Fdn and Margaret Barbieri & Iain Webb of The Sarasota Ballet 🤩 LBC Members and guests are invited to book now on our site: tlbc.org.uk/events/Ashton

On the 62nd anniversary of Ashton's 'Raymonda' pas de deux, variations, and coda (1962), enjoy this throwback to our wonderful 2017 masterclass with Donald MacLeary & Darcey Bussell

On the anniversary of the ballet's premiere, we're excited to share that Ashton's 'Romeo and Juliet' (1955), created for the Royal Danish Ballet, will be the focus of our next Frederick Ashton Fdn masterclass, which takes place Royal Ballet School on 2 Sept. Info & updates to come soon!

Excited about our hybrid #Ashton event in partnership w/ The Frederick Ashton Foundation Frederick Ashton Fdn + The Sarasota Ballet on 29 May (see link in bio) Royal Ballet School and via zoom. A highlight of the event will be Lynne Wake’s wonderful film “Frederick Ashton : Links in the Chain”

'I can’t think of another choreographer whose creations so completely combine charm with poignancy, wit with wisdom, virtuosity with musicality'—Debra Craine As we announce Ashton Worldwide 2024-2028 read about Ashton's special genius & invaluable legacy thetimes.co.uk/article/ballet…

Thank you London Ballet Circle Frederick Ashton Fdn The Sarasota Ballet for a really enjoyable #FrederickAshton Event Zoom tonight including a showing of Links in the Chain' by Lynne Wake plus Margaret Barbier & Iain Webb of Sarasota Ballet in conversation with Jane Pritchard.

'The whole programme, danced with grace and care, is a history lesson and a delight' 😍 Enjoy this review of The Sarasota Ballet @RoyalOperaHouse from Sarah Crompton

'A gorgeous revival, bringing out the depth and colour of both steps and storytelling' Zoë Anderson's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of The Royal Ballet's 'Ashton Celebrated': independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

'In my imagination, there exists a life in a land of eternal late spring, a luscious pastoral landscape of perpetual sunshine' – Frederick Ashton youtube.com/watch?v=eECpcr…

😍 can you spot the Ashton ballets?

💡🍸Did you know?...Ashton was good friends with the Queen Mother. They enjoyed martinis together after picnics at Sandringham & on his O.M. she wrote to him saying 'you have put our English ballet on a pinnacle' illustrated with a jaunty sketch of a ballerina on a mountain peak!

💃 throwing it back with some stunning pics of Gary Avis Gary Avis MBE 💙 & Christina Arestis performing pas de deux from Ashton's 'Enigma Variations' and 'Façade' at the High Sheriff of Suffolk’s Command Performance, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, in March 📸 ©Tom Soper

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get into the taxi of course! 🐔🚕 Today we're looking back to the fun we had with La Fille mal gardée in 2018! The im-peck-able ballet visits Birmingham Hippodrome, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Sadler's Wells this autumn, book now: bit.ly/4ea8XjZ