Ballet biography is a difficult genre, dependent so much on fading memories, partial accounts and the fitful mapping of filmed record on theatrical immediacy. It works when it illuminates an artist and unlocks a world, and few do this as impressively as Julie Kavanagh's Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton. Ashton is one of the great British choreographers. An undeniably touchy artist, he … [Read more...]
David Jays on theatre and dance
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