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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.
****1
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Keepers of the Ashton flame in the US: Sarasota Ballet at The Joyce

Danielle Brown and Ricardo Rhodes in Varii Capricci © Steven Pisano
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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