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Sarasota Ballet: British style, from Florida, arrives in New York

Marijana Dominis, Samuel Gest and Brooke Wilson in Antony Tudor’s Lilac Garden © Steven Pisano
Triumphant, unshowy, virtuosic. Sarasota Ballet brings a trio of 20th century British choreographers to New York. 

The Sarasota Ballet's Ashton Gala: keeping his ballets very much alive

The Sarasota Ballet in Ashton's Valses nobles et sentimentales © Frank Atura
Bringing Ashton from Florida to The Royal Opera House sounds like “coals to Newcastle” but I think that “discovering buried treasure” might be a more appropriate idiom.

The Sarasota Ballet: a second programme to relish

The Sarasota Ballet in Ashton's Valses nobles et sentimentales © Frank Atura
The Sarasota Ballet continues to make a deep impression with its second programme of Ashton ballets, this time including a selection of divertissements and excerpts from longer ballets.

The Sarasota Ballet: a boldly revelatory first visit to the UK

Ricardo Rhodes, Jessica Assef, Daniel Pratt in Frederick Ashton's Valses nobles et sentimentales © Foteini Christofilopoulou
Anyone who is interested in the Ashton repertoire should go and see this marvellous reinterpretation of his repertoire from the excellent Sarasota Ballet.

Sarasota Ballet's Conflicted Beauty: exemplifying excellence

Sarasota Ballet in Sir Frederick Ashton's Dante Sonata © Frank Atura
An excellent and diverse triple bill with an Ashton gem at its centre.

Keepers of the Ashton flame in the US: Sarasota Ballet at The Joyce

Not every Ashton work is a masterpiece, but Sarasota Ballet presents these Ashton works with such love and care, it ensures that even if the ballets won’t “keep”, they aren’t forgotten.
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Living The Dream: paying homage to Sir Frederick Ashton’s masterpiece

Sir Frederick Ashton with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev © Donald Southern
The original cast of principals – and current interpreters – discuss the joys of working with the late choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, and the great legacy he has left to today’s dancers.