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Frederick Ashton
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British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)
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Frederick Ashton (1904–1988) was a British dancer, choreographer, and screenwriter. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His professional career began in 1926, and he worked in the fields of dance, ballet, and choreography. Ashton was a Knight Bachelor and received several honors, including the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Order of Merit, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour.
He is noted for the work *L'orgie*. Ashton spoke English and was identified as a male. He died in Suffolk.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1988
- Works
- 0
Top works
- L'orgie
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Crew · Guayaquil, Ecuador
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM, CH, CBE (17 September 1904 – 18 October 1988) was a leading international dancer and choreographer. He is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London, but also worked as a director and choreographer of opera, film and theatre revues. Description above from the Wikipedia article…
Known for
- Tales of Beatrix Potter — Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle1971
- Cinderella — Ugly Stepsister1970
- The Tales of Hoffmann — Kleinsach / Cochenille1951
- Television Demonstration Film1937
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1904
- Active to
- 1988
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 12
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frederick+Ashton">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,563x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,955x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,840x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,685x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton , ( 1904-09-17 ) 17 September 1904, Guayaquil , Ecuador
- Died
- 18 August 1988 (1988-08-18) (aged 83), Chandos Lodge, Eye, Suffolk , England
- Citizenship
- British
- Occupation
- Choreographer
- Years active
- 1926–1980
- Notable work
- Symphonic Variations (1946) Cinderella (1948) Sylvia (1952) Ondine (1958) La fille mal gardée (1960)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frederick
- Family name
- Ashton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Guayaquil
- Place of death
- Suffolk
- Occupation
- librettist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Noble title
- Knight Bachelor
- Field of work
- choreography
- Image
- Sir Fred.jpg
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- Commons category
- Frederick Ashton
- date of birth
- 1904-09-17
- date of death
- 1988-08-18
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- name in native language
- Frederick Ashton
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 1904 – 18 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as a director and choreographer in opera, film and revue.
Determined to be a dancer despite the opposition of his conventional middle-class family, Ashton was accepted as a pupil by Léonide Massine and then by Marie Rambert. In 1926 Rambert encouraged him to try his hand at choreography, and though he continued to dance professionally, with success, it was as a choreographer that he became famous.
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